MPR News PM Update

Feb. 3, 2022

Charges are expected by midday Friday against the suspects in a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside a Richfield school. Minnesota law generally requires that defendants be charged within 36 hours of their arrest.

The Hennepin County Attorney's Office says a judge granted prosecutors an extension to file the criminal complaints.

Two Minneapolis men — ages 18 and 19 — are jailed awaiting charges.

Fifteen-year-old Jahmari Rice was killed, and a 17-year-old suffered critical injuries in the shooting at the South Education Center. A 19-year-old suffered minor injuries.

Richfield police say the five teens knew each other, and the shooting appears to have stemmed from an earlier dispute.

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