After deadly shooting, MOA begins random bag checks
The mall says those checks are part of what it calls "multiple layers" of its security strategy, and it comes only days after the shooting in Nordstrom which killed 19-year-old Johntae Hudson.
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The mall says those checks are part of what it calls "multiple layers" of its security strategy, and it comes only days after the shooting in Nordstrom which killed 19-year-old Johntae Hudson.
Police in St. Paul remain on the lookout for the person or people who killed a 22-year-old man in St. Paul's North End neighborhood earlier this week, the city's 40th homicide this year.
"Our goal is to not kick the can down the road. Our goal is to have an uncomfortable conversation with our taxpayers, with our residents," Mayor Carter said.
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"I've been here all my life, I'm 75 years old, and I've never seen it this wet and sloppy," said Two Harbors resident Paul Jones.
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St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said he was "saddened" by the news of the killing, and that he will "ensure a thorough, timely, and transparent investigation will occur."
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