18-year-old charged with murder in south Minneapolis bus stop killing

An 18-year-old Minneapolis man is accused of fatally taking pictures 31-year-old Derrick L. Harding-Reyes at a bus cease in south Minneapolis final month. 

Jose Cippirno Dominguez was charged Tuesday with one depend of 2nd-degree homicide in reference to the Dec. 21 taking pictures on the bus shelter close to the intersection of twenty fourth Avenue South and Nicollet Avenue South, on the north finish of Eat Avenue.

Surveillance footage allegedly exhibits Dominguez get dropped off by a bus on the shelter moments earlier than the taking pictures. 

Dominguez and Harding-Reyes exchanged phrases, fees state, though it couldn’t be deciphered what was mentioned. 

“After just some seconds collectively within the bus shelter, [Dominguez] pulled out a firearm, racked the slide, and shot [Harding-Reyes] within the head,” the criticism states. 

Dominguez fled whereas passerby referred to as 911.

Investigators used bus go data to establish Dominguez as a suspect, in line with fees. Dominguez acquired in contact with officers when he discovered they needed to talk with him. 

In an interview with police, Dominguez denied committing the homicide and claimed he was residence washing dishes and taking part in video video games when the taking pictures occurred. 

Dominguez confirmed officers his bus go, pulling it from the identical distinctive pockets noticed on surveillance footage. 

Whereas looking out Dominguez’s residence, investigators allegedly recovered a number of items of clothes matching the clothes worn by the shooter within the surveillance footage.