Man accused of shooting bystander on Minneapolis’ Eat Street appears in court

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A shootout between two teams of males that occurred in the midst of Minneapolis’ fashionable Eat Avenue final June resulted in a lady who was a bystander getting shot within the again. Two males have been since been charged within the case and on Thursday, one of many suspects made his first courtroom look. 

James Reaheem Patterson Jr, who’s now 19 years outdated, is going through three felony costs: first-degree assault with nice bodily hurt, illegally possessing a firearm after a conviction of a violent crime and second-degree riot. The primary cost is probably the most critical and carries a sentence of as much as 20 years in jail. The legal criticism signifies he’s charged with both firing the weapon that shot the sufferer or “deliberately aiding” or “conspiring” with the one that did, in accordance with the legal criticism. Court docket information point out he has but to enter a plea. 

The opposite suspect, Marion Quintel Ware, 20, of St. Paul, was arrested in August 2021. He confronted the identical costs as Patterson however took a plea deal on Might 5 to serve 14 years in jail. His sentencing listening to is scheduled for Aug. 15. 

Prosecutors make their case

In accordance with the legal complaints filed by the Hennepin County Legal professional’s Workplace, the small print of the case are as follows: 

On a heat Tuesday night time on June 29, 2021, a lady was strolling with a pal by West twenty sixth and Nicollet Avenue, on Eat Avenue in Minneapolis, after the 2 had loved a meal at a close-by restaurant. They have been strolling north, away from downtown, when at round 6:36 p.m., they got here to the subsequent intersection — twenty seventh Avenue — and noticed a gaggle of males down the road.

Because the pair crossed the road, they heard gunshots, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. The girl grabbed her pal’s arm and began to run however she solely made it so far as the curb when she fell, shot within the again, the paperwork say.

The bullet entered close to her left shoulder blade, punctured her lung and went throughout to the precise facet of her neck, the place it stopped. Medical doctors eliminated the bullet this January, however the sufferer’s left hand was left partially paralyzed, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.  

Minneapolis police interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance footage from close by companies and houses to find out the sufferer had been an harmless bystander in an change of gunfire between two teams. Safety footage confirmed somebody in a blue Honda Accord firing at a gaggle of males on the sidewalk by the Tobacco and Mas retailer. A number of males on the sidewalk then pulled out handguns and fired again as they ran away eastbound, in accordance with the legal criticism.

Investigators acknowledged one of many males as Patterson, who was seen firing on the automobile within the video, from social media pictures revealed every week later. Detectives additionally took fingerprints from a soda can that safety digicam footage confirmed had been held by one of many males on the sidewalk. They obtained a match: Marion Quintel Ware, 20, of St. Paul, in accordance with the criticism. 

Patterson was two and a half weeks shy of his 18th birthday when the taking pictures occurred, however on June 10, 2022, a choose ordered him to face trial for the taking pictures as an grownup. 

Days earlier than the taking pictures on Eat Avenue, Patterson was convicted on June 10, 2021, as an grownup on an aggravated theft cost stemming from a 2020 crime.