St. Paul Bar Shooting Leaves 1 Dead and at Least 14 Wounded - The New York Times

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Investigators said that they had arrested three men who were among those wounded but had not yet determined a motive for the shooting.

One person was killed and at least 14 others were wounded during a shooting early on Sunday morning inside a crowded bar in St. Paul, Minn., the authorities said.

When the police arrived at the bar, identified as Seventh Street Truck Park, shortly after 12:15 a.m., they said they encountered a chaotic scene, with the victims scattered on the sidewalk, in the street and inside.

“They walked into a hellish situation,” Steve Linders, a spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department, said during a briefing at the scene later on Sunday morning.

Investigators said later on Sunday that they had arrested three men who were involved in the shooting and were among those who were shot. According to the police, the men, who remained hospitalized, are: Terry Lorenzo Brown Jr., 33; Devondre Trevon Phillips, 29; and Jeffrey Orlando Hoffman, 32.

It was not immediately clear whether the men had lawyers. They are expected to be booked into a Ramsey County jail after they are released from the hospital and while they await formal charges.

The authorities said that they had not yet determined a motive for the shooting, which claimed the life of a woman in her 20s. The police did not release the woman’s name.

“One minute she’s having a good time,” Mr. Linders said. “The next minute, she’s lying in her friends’ arms who are trying to save her life, and she didn’t make it. I can’t think of anything worse.”

In addition to the three men who were arrested, 11 people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, said Mr. Linders, who described their injuries as not life-threatening. The police were trying to determine if there were other victims who may have left the scene and sought treatment on their own, he said.

Mr. Linders said that several “good Samaritans” helped tend to the victims until emergency responders could treat them.

“We had people in the city of St. Paul out on a Saturday night having a good time and we had other people who decided to pull guns with reckless disregard to human life and pull the trigger over and over and over and over again, and it ended in tragedy,” he said.

The Seventh Street Truck Park did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Sunday morning. No one answered the phone at the bar, which has a large food hall with food trucks inside.

Later on Sunday morning, Mayor Melvin Carter of St. Paul condemned the violence.

“Our community is devastated by the shocking scenes from last night,” Mr. Carter said on Twitter. “As our Saint Paul officers work to bring those responsible for these senseless acts into custody, our work to build more proactive and comprehensive public safety strategies is more urgent than ever. We will never accept violence in our community.”

St. Paul is approaching another grim milestone for the number of homicides in Minnesota’s capital city.

The bar shooting on Sunday morning brought the total number of homicides for the year to 32, according to the police. Last year, there were 34 homicides, which The Pioneer Press reported tied a record set in 1992.

Representative Betty McCollum, Democrat of Minnesota, who represents St. Paul, lamented the loss of life in a series of tweets on Sunday morning.

“The epidemic of gun violence plaguing the Twin Cities has hit us in St. Paul with a mass shooting event that can only be described as a horror,” Ms. McCollum said. “I know our St. Paul community will come together to support the victims and their families during this time of pain and grief.”

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