St. Paul police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in last month’s fatal shooting of a 45-year-old Burnsville man outside a North End bar, officials say.
Marlon Vincent Walker, 29, was booked into the Ramsey County jail, according to St. Paul Police Department spokesman Steve Linders. He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyreese Harris, police said.
Harris was shot April 25 outside the Foundry Pub at Jackson Street and Maryland Avenue. He died the next day at Regions Hospital.
Walker was arrested Wednesday outside a hotel in the 7700 block of Lyndale Avenue South in Richfield, Linders said.
In a statement posted to Facebook, St. Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell commended the investigators who identified and apprehended Walker.
“One of the ways we can stop people from pulling the trigger in our city is by putting those who do in jail — for their victims, for those who’ve lost loved ones, and for those who live in neighborhoods where the sound of gunshots have echoed up and down the streets,” Axtell said.
“It won’t bring Mr. Harris back, but it is the first step in getting him justice,” he added.
Walker was awaiting trial after being charged in January 2020 with first-degree aggravated robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm due to a conviction for a crime of violence. A criminal complaint said he climbed into the the back seat of an SUV parked outside a home in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood in September 2019 and told the vehicle’s driver not to move.
As the driver tried to flee, the gunman struck him in the face with a gun and forced him onto the ground outside. He robbed him and then started firing around his head and warned him to stay down, according to the complaint.
Walker pleaded not guilty in the case in February.