A spring afternoon in Saint Paul ended with a 20-year-old man dead after a burst of gunfire. Micheal Valentino Parrish, a 20-year-old Black man from Minneapolis, was fatally shot on April 18, 2020, around noon on the 1400 block of Minnehaha Avenue East. Witnesses reported at least a dozen shots near a Holiday gas station.

After the shooting, Parrish and another man were seen fleeing in a red van. Officers later stopped that vehicle about two miles away at Bush Avenue and Bradley Street; Parrish was found dead inside and pronounced at the scene. A second man in the van suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his arm and was taken to Regions Hospital. Witnesses also reported seeing a possible suspect run from the scene on foot.

No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly released and the investigation was described as ongoing. If anyone has information that could help piece together what happened that day, please share what is known.