MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A person is now accused of tried homicide for an assault in 2022 that seems to have began with a confrontation between a house owner and squatters in Minneapolis.

James Cooper Henderson, of St. Paul, was arrested this week and questioned by police, practically a 12 months after the capturing that occurred alongside the 800 block of Elmwood Avenue North in Might 2022.

In keeping with the fees, Henderson admitted to the capturing within the interview with officers on Wednesday, believing he had killed the sufferer.

“[Henderson] admitted that he fired the gun till it ran out of bullets,” the fees state. “[Henderson] admitted that the sufferer’s son referred to as the sufferer’s telephone after the capturing and [he] felt regret for what he had performed.”

As the fees element, a day after the capturing, Henderson had apparently confessed to his dad and mom that he killed “somebody on Elmwood Avenue North” telling his dad and mom he was going to show himself in. His dad and mom, in flip, had contacted the police.

Nevertheless, it seems the sufferer survived the capturing.

The capturing

The fees state that the sufferer had gone to a vacant property he owned on Elmwood Avenue North on Might 20, 2022 to mow the garden. When he went inside the house, he informed police he noticed meals wrappers on the ground and have become suspicious squatters could have been dwelling in the home.

He says he went exterior and noticed three individuals within the second-floor bed room of the house. He informed police he tried to name 911, however somebody out of the blue pushed him again into the home and began to hit and kick him after he fell to the ground.

One of many obvious squatters, which included Henderson, one other man, and a lady, demanded the sufferer hand over his keys, telephone, and pockets.

The fees state Henderson went to get the sufferer’s 9mm gun and shot the sufferer, Earlier than once more demanding the sufferer hand over his pockets.

After being shot, the sufferer says the suspects left him alone for a quick interval. Throughout that point, he tried to run to the storage however was shot once more a number of instances.

The sufferer says the following factor he remembered is getting assist from a neighbor.

The sufferer’s belongings have been later present in St. Paul.