On the evening of December 26, 2019, 37-year-old Antonio Espana-Estrada was fatally shot in the parking lot of J&P Trading, a food distributor on State Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The shooting happened around 5:25 p.m. as Espana-Estrada was walking from the building; witnesses said a man emerged from a minivan, shot him multiple times in the torso, then returned and shot him again after he had fallen. He was taken to Regions Hospital, where he died.

The suspect was identified as 28-year-old Chee Kong Yang of St. Paul. Witnesses reported Yang had been arguing with his girlfriend inside the minivan moments before the shooting. After the shooting Yang and the girlfriend fled in the minivan; less than two miles away the vehicle was involved in a hit-and-run and crashed through a cemetery fence. The girlfriend suffered a non-critical injury and Yang was located and taken into custody after a passerby pointed police to him. Yang was charged with second-degree murder. He had worked at J&P Trading three to four years earlier, but a clear motive was not reported and the family described Espana-Estrada as friendly and caring.

Did anyone who worked at J&P Trading or lived nearby see interactions between Espana-Estrada and Yang in the weeks before December 26, 2019?