Six Arrested After What Officers Noticed at a Funeral for Mall of America Shooting Victim
Police have arrested six men following the funeral for a 19-year-old man who was shot at the Mall of America last month.
Johntae Hudson’s funeral was held Friday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
Officers at the service noticed a man with a handgun and another man wanted for a non-fatal shooting Dec. 14 were in attendance.
The two men left the funeral in an SUV with five other men.
According to police, the vehicle pulled into a gas station, where officers tried to stop it.
One of the men jumped out of the SUV and tried to run away before officers captured him.
The SUV took off with the two men from the funeral still inside.
Police gave chase, but lost sight of the vehicle. They later found it abandoned.
Four 19-year-old men and one 18-year-old man were found in the nearby area and arrested.
Charges were filed Thursday against four people related to the Mall of America Christmas weekend homicide of 19-year-old Johntae Raymon Hudson. https://t.co/7pfCsw9Mkg
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) December 30, 2022
The 18-year-old was the man with the handgun at the funeral.
Officers searched the area and found a bag containing a 9 mm handgun and clothes the man was wearing at the funeral, St. Paul Police Sgt. Mike Ernster said.
The Dec. 14 shooting suspect, who was at the funeral, wasn’t found and is still wanted, Ernster said.
Johntae Hudson St. Paul MN died in Mall of America shooting – GoFundMe https://t.co/YFfmX1WboU
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Four other teenagers have been charged in Hudson’s death.
He was shot on Dec. 23 in the Mall of America’s Nordstrom store.
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