Metro Transit police investigating fatal shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Metro Transit police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened around 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Police say they responded to reports of a shooting on a Green Line train heading westbound. The train was approaching the Hamline Avenue station.
When officers arrived they found a man with a gunshot wound. The man was taken to a local hospital but he later died.
On Monday, the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as 33-year-old Sharif Darryl Walker-El, Jr.
No other injuries were reported.
Police are actively searching for a suspect and the shooting is being investigated by Metro Transit police with assistance from St. Paul police.
