Metro Police Transit Arrest Suspect in January for shooting 2 in the center of St. Paul Bus Stop – St. Paul Pione Press

Metro Transit police have arrested a man accused of shooting two people at St. Paul’s bust stop in the city center, authorities said.

Craig V. King, 59, was arrested on Wednesday. He has now been charged with two second -degree attacks and two accusations of being a criminal holding a firearm, Metro Transit Metro police said on Friday.

King was accused of shooting on January 23 on two people on the sidewalk on the sixth and cedar streets. The shooting followed a dispute on a metro bus. Victims have suffered life -threatening injuries.

The criminal appeal gave the following details:

A video of observation near the bus stop showed that a woman was getting off the bus at 8:14 pm. A more adult man followed her. The woman pushed the man who fell back to the ground and then pointed a gun at her and shot her.

Several other people were present. Sagittarius, later identified as a king, stood up and headed for a bus stop on the streets of Peta and Minnesota and changed clothes before getting on a bus at 8:33 pm. Later, police found the pants he wore close to the bus Stop.

A witness told the police that she and her friends first started talking to King at a bus stop and then everyone got on the same bus. He began to flirt with the woman and asked him if he could return to their hotel with her and her friends. When they got off the bus on the sixth and cedar, he followed. The woman continued to repel her proposal as the man approached her. Her girlfriend, another woman, intervened and repelled the man.

Then he pulled out the gun and shot his friend in the abdomen.

According to the complaint, another person identified as a DC came off the bus and walked to the bus shelter when he felt a feeling of burning his legs and later realized that he was also shot.

“Our employees go over and beyond to be visible in the system and keep people responsible for illegal and dangerous activities that influence our riders, staff and communities we serve,” said the metro metro police chief in a statement Joe Docet.

Recently, Metro Transit reported a 6% drop in crime on buses and trains from 2023 to 2024 and a 15% drop in a serious crime during the same period.