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On September 1, 2016, at about 3:56 a.m., 41-year-old Jason Mikulak was fatally shot in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mikulak and his girlfriend were sitting in a parked car on Galtier Street near Orange Avenue when a man with his face partly covered by a white bandana approached and displayed a handgun, demanding money. The girlfriend placed a $20 bill on the car roof and moved to hand it over; Mikulak exited the vehicle and tried to disarm the assailant. A struggle followed and the gunman fired, striking Mikulak in the upper chest, abdomen, and arm. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered fingerprints from the vehicle that were later matched to 29-year-old Benjamin Lee Harris, who was on supervised release at the time and had an existing warrant for violating his release. Harris was arrested in Saint Paul on September 6, 2016, and charged with two counts of second-degree murder. A white bandana matching the robbery description was found in his apartment, and during questioning he mentioned the $20 bill that had been placed on the car, a detail not publicly released.

Does anyone have information about that stretch of Galtier Street or saw activity in the area around 3:56 a.m. on September 1, 2016?