St. Paul Man Indicted In Double Murder

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) -- A 24-year-old St. Paul man has been indicted by a grand jury for multiple counts of murder after a shooting last December left two people dead.

Jamaine Jamie Williams was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder in connection with the incident, which happened Dec. 10, 2015.

According to the charges, the St. Paul Police Department was called at about 12:40 a.m. to the 200 block of Forbes Avenue on a report of multiple gunshots. When officers arrived, they found a flight of stairs leading to an upstairs apartment at the back of the residence. An exterior screen door was closed, but unlocked. An exterior wood door behind the screen door was open and officers called out, but got no response.

Officers went through the apartment and saw multiple shell casings on the living room floor and blood on the wall and blinds of the apartment. Officers then discovered two males, both dead, in the apartment. The complaint states one man was kneeling and slumped forward with multiple gunshot wounds on his left side and back area and a pistol was near his hands.

The complaint states the second man was directly behind the first male with his back against the northwest corner of the room. He had suffered from a gunshot wound to the head.

As other officers were responding to the call, they saw a third gunshot victim in the intersection of W. 7th Street and Smith Avenue. He was down on the sidewalk covered in blood with several gunshot wounds to his chest, head, neck and midsection. He told officers he didn't know who shot him.

The complaint states two women who had been at the apartment at the time of the incident had returned and spoke with officers. One of the two women told police she lived at the apartment with her brother and a friend, and the three men shot were visiting. She heard a knock at the door, asked who it was and the person said, "It's the police open the damn door." She opened it, and a man identified as Williams pointed a gun at her and told her to get out of the way.

According to the complaint, she ran and heard multiple gunshots. She told police she saw Williams with the same gun a week earlier and he made threats to "kill everyone in the house." She said her roommate had children with Williams and the two recently broke up. She started dating one of the men who was shot, and Williams had been jealous and threatened her.

Williams was located at about 1 p.m. that day at a Bloomington residence, and he was taken into custody. He denied any involvement in the shootings and said he was at his brother's place in Minneapolis at the time of the incident and spent the night there. He also changed aspects of his story during police interrogation.

Williams has a criminal history that includes convictions for reckless discharge of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit, possession of a pistol at under 18 years of age, second-degree riot with a dangerous weapon and aiding an offender to avoid arrest.

The Ramsey County Medical Examiner declared both shooting deaths to be homicide. If convicted, Williams faces 100 years in jail.