Man charged with murder in Minneapolis shooting caught on camera

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A person has been charged with homicide in connection to a taking pictures in a Minneapolis condo that left a person lifeless and a lady critically injured earlier this month. The taking pictures was all captured on digital camera. 

Deaje Anthony Mayfield, 19, of Flint, Michigan, was charged by way of warrant Friday, April 22, in Hennepin County District Court docket with second-degree homicide and second-degree tried homicide.

Authorities allege a digital camera within the condo captured the April 6 incident during which Mayfield fatally shot Nate Dwight Banks, 34, of Detroit Lakes, after which shot and critically injured a lady.

Mayfield has not but been arrested, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Police imagine he could also be touring again to Flint, Michigan, the place there may be an open legal case towards him, calling him a flight threat and a threat to public security, courtroom paperwork state. 

In response to the legal criticism, Minneapolis police responded to a studio condo at 2417 seventeenth Avenue South at 8:33 p.m. on April 6, the place they discovered Banks on the ground with gunshot wounds to his head and physique. Paramedics declared him lifeless. 

Police additionally discovered a lady, recognized within the legal criticism solely as TLB, who had gunshot wounds to her head and neck. She was taken to the hospital, the place she is in crucial situation, expenses mentioned. 

A digital camera within the condo had recorded the taking pictures, expenses say. Police discovered footage of suspected drug exercise, together with a person, recognized as Individual A within the criticism, promoting medication, and several other individuals coming and going within the day main as much as the taking pictures. 

The digital camera captured Banks and TLB arriving on the condo at about 8:22 p.m. on April 6, expenses mentioned. The video confirmed Banks having a dialog with Individual A, and after a couple of minutes of “animated dialog,” a person later recognized as Mayfield stepped behind Banks and shot him, inflicting Banks to fall backward. Mayfield then moved nearer to Banks and shot him “a number of extra occasions.”

The video then confirmed TLB, who was within the kitchen on the time Banks was shot, working towards the door and Mayfield following, the criticism says. TLB then went again to the kitchen and appeared to crouch within the nook earlier than Mayfield shot her a number of occasions.

Mayfield and Individual A appeared to undergo Banks’ pockets earlier than leaving, expenses allege. 

Police recognized Mayfield after talking to a witness who was additionally seen on the video footage. The witness mentioned three days earlier than the taking pictures, Individual A got here to the condo with “Paco,” expenses mentioned. Police searched Fb for individuals named Paco, finally linking Paco’s Fb account to Mayfield.