Annamarie Wagener, 41, was fatally shot in the early morning of Thursday, September 3, 2020, near Arcade Street and East Cook Avenue in Saint Paul’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood. Officers found her shortly before 3:40 a.m. with gunshot wounds to her chest and leg; despite aid, she was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy showed she had been shot six times. Another woman was severely wounded in the same incident.

Wagener had recently obtained a permit to carry a firearm because she felt the neighborhood was unsafe. Investigators believed she and her attacker knew each other. Her death was recorded as the 23rd homicide in Saint Paul that year amid a rise in gun violence; the same night saw two other shootings leaving one woman in grave condition and a man with non-life-threatening injuries.

In November 2020, Antoine Lorenzo Powell, 34, was charged with second-degree murder; he had an extensive criminal history and was already in custody on another matter. In August 2021, Antoine L. Powell pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder and, under a plea agreement, was expected to receive a sentence of just over 11 years with credit for time served and supervised release to follow. A motive has not been publicly disclosed.

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