2 Charged In Minneapolis Aggravated Assault, Robbery
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Two men are accused of assaulting and robbing a couple at gunpoint as they were walking to their Minneapolis home on Tuesday, according to charges filed Friday in Hennepin County District Court.
Derrick Lever Fulks, 25 of Minneapolis, and Wayde Henry Murphy Jr. 20 of Minneapolis, were each charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated robbery in connection with the incident.
According to a criminal complaint, Minneapolis Police were called at about 11:58 p.m. Tuesday to the 2700 block of 18th Avenue South on a report of a person with a gun. When authorities arrived, they spotted two men who immediately tried to leave the area.
The two men were later identified by witnesses at the scene as Fulks and Murphy. Police saw Murphy drop a white plastic grocery bag in the area before he started to walk away. Authorities also saw Fulks throw what appeared to be a black handgun into the front yard of a residence in the area. Authorities investigated the area and found that the white plastic bag had several .22-caliber rounds, a shoulder holster, a black BB gun and a white washcloth with blood on it, according to the complaint.
While officers were in the area, a female approached them and said she had just been robbed. She was walking home with her boyfriend when a Native American male got out of a car and asked her for a light for his cigarette. When she didn't, a black man got out of the car, pointed a gun at the two victims and demanded money from them. Another black man got out of the car and punched the woman in the face. She later identified that man as Murphy.
The woman told the man with the gun, identified as Fulk, that she didn't have any money. He proceeded to put a gun in the male victim's mouth. Murphy then went through the female victim's purse and took about $3 in quarters she had for laundry, the complaint states. Fulk took $10 from the male victim.
If convicted, both men face up to 20 years in prison and/or $35,000 in fines.
