Lafayette Bridge Shooting – Two Cars Struck Multiple Times – St Paul
June 12, 2008 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Two cars and one of their passengers were struck by bullets tonight while traveling over the Lafayette Bridge Wednesday evening, according to St. Paul police.
About 8:20 p.m., four men pulled into Regions Hospital in a car that had been riddled with bullets. One of them, a 22-year-old passenger from South St. Paul, had two bullet wounds himself, though police said he would live.
The men told police they had been shot at while driving north on the Lafayette Bridge, a part of Highway 52 connecting downtown St. Paul to the West Side. They said they did not see anything, but “heard popping sounds” before their car was struck, police officials said.
Shortly thereafter, the driver of another vehicle contacted police, saying his car had also been struck by bullets while traveling north over the bridge this evening. The man drove to his home on St. Paul’s East Side and called police from there.
Police searched the bridge within the hour and discovered shell casings in the northbound lanes. There are no pedestrian walkways on the bridge.
The men in the first car were still being questioned late this evening.
