Maurice Galvin Jr., 20, was shot behind a strip mall in Sartell, Minnesota, on the morning of March 13, 2014, and died that evening at St. Cloud Hospital. Police determined the shooting was not random; the victim and the shooter knew one another. The next day authorities charged 23-year-old Demetreus Anthony McGinnis, an employee at the Sprint store in that strip mall, with second-degree murder. A criminal complaint says McGinnis admitted he had been in a confrontation and had hurt somebody, and he was held at the Stearns County Jail on two million dollars bail.

At the initial court appearance the defense said McGinnis acted in self-defense, alleging Galvin and another person came to the store intending to rob him and that a struggle over a gun led to an accidental discharge that struck Galvin. Prosecutors countered that the meeting was connected to a drug transaction and noted McGinnis’s prior aggravated robbery convictions as a public safety concern; a grand jury later indicted McGinnis on first-degree murder. The trial ended with a jury finding McGinnis not guilty of first-degree murder but convicting him of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and witness tampering in connection with Maurice Galvin Jr.’s death.

Did anyone in Sartell or St. Cloud remember seeing Maurice or have information about the events behind the strip mall that day?