By Anthony Lonetree
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the fight and fatal shooting that triggered a chaotic night on St. Paul’s East Side Monday, police said Wednesday.
A 25-year-old St. Paul man is accused of shooting Dwight R. Tate, 24, outside the Maryland Park Apartments, 1619 E. Maryland Av.
Police also arrested a 19-year-old woman for “encouraging, inciting and participating in the large fight that ended with shots being fired,” police said.
About four hours after that altercation, a third man, Romell Hill, 19, was shot and killed by police after he returned to the apartment complex early Tuesday and allegedly shot and wounded an officer.
Investigators have determined that Hill was at the initial fight, but questions about “who knew who” in that event still were being sorted out, police spokesman Sgt. Paul Schnell said Wednesday. He added that more arrests were possible.
Charges against the two suspects arrested Tuesday could be filed Wednesday.
Tate, who was whisked away from the complex in a sport utility vehicle that later crashed, died early Tuesday at Regions Hospital.
Hill, who had run from officers before being fatally shot, was pronounced dead at the scene.
On Wednesday, police identified the officers involved in Hill’s shooting as Adam Bailey, Thomas Weinzettel and Stephen Bobrowski, all of whom joined the force in 2005.
Bailey, who was wounded Tuesday, remained hospitalized Wednesday and was expected to fully recover.
In September, Bailey was one of five officers and a police dog given Medals of Valor for their roles in an April shootout described as a case of “suicide by cop.” In that incident, a St. Paul musician had aimed a gun at officers while in an East Side alley, and was fatally shot by three of them -- one of them being Bailey.
Schnell said the only disciplinary blemish on Bailey’s record stemmed from being involved in a “preventable accident.” So, too, had Weinzettel, he said.
In 2007, Schnell said, Bobrowski received an oral reprimand for being “impatient and unprofessional” in his dealings with a woman who had called police seeking help retrieving property.
All three officers are on administrative leave, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings.
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