On the evening of August 14, 2020, 21-year-old Ronald Junior Smith of St. Cloud was found dead in the lower level of a downtown Minneapolis hotel parking ramp on the 400 block of 7th Street East. His body was discovered about 6 p.m., and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner later determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. Minneapolis Police opened a homicide investigation with no suspects initially in custody.

Surveillance from the parking ramp showed Smith with another man shortly before the killing. That footage led investigators to a witness in a separate St. Paul murder case who identified the man by the street name Criddy, which pointed police to 19-year-old Christopher Malik Todd of Minneapolis. Todd told investigators he had been riding in Smith’s Charger when an unknown shooter fired through a window, striking Smith, and that he later moved the body before driving off. Investigators concluded the shooting did not happen as Todd described, and he was charged with second-degree murder. Authorities say Todd also used Smith’s car in a later drive-by at a funeral and was implicated in other violent incidents that followed.

Does anyone have information about Smith’s movements that evening or recall seeing him at the downtown ramp?