Teresa Ann Bear Ribs, 61, was killed in her Saint Paul backyard on August 19, 2020. She was on the phone with her husband when he heard her ask someone what they were doing and why they were there; the call ended and their daughter found Teresa unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head. Emergency responders pronounced her dead at the scene after a 9-1-1 call at 8:45 PM.

Investigators report the daughter believed Maurice June, 32, and Christopher Todd, 19, were involved. The day before Teresa’s death the daughter’s boyfriend had been killed in a separate shooting in Minneapolis, and June and Todd are suspected of looking for the daughter and, failing to find her, shooting Teresa instead. Both men were taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder; their accounts to police conflicted, with each blaming the other for the shooting.

If anyone has information about Teresa, who she was, or the events that night, please share what is known.