Ja’uan Eugene Love, 37, was fatally shot in the early hours of September 29, 2017, in a parking lot behind the Lamplighter Lounge in Saint Paul. Surveillance from inside the lounge showed no fight between Love and a separate group that included Peter Devonn Crosby. After about 2 a.m. both groups were in the lot; Crosby and his companions spoke with a man in a car, and Love also approached that vehicle. No physical altercation was seen on the footage.

The Ramsey County medical examiner found one bullet entered the left side of Love’s head and a second entered the back of his right shoulder and traveled into his head; Love was pronounced dead at the scene. The man in the car drove away and Crosby left in the car he had arrived in while two companions fled on foot.

Investigators identified 35-year-old Peter Devonn Crosby as the suspect, used phone records to track movements across Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and located him in Illinois where he was taken into custody pending extradition and later charged with one count of second-degree murder with intent.