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Maplewood Homicide Victim
Identified
Submitted by admin1 on Mon, 11/09/2015 - 1 :32pm
Maplewood police have identified the man killed in a home invasion Saturday morning as 31 -year-old Justin Niles Wright.
According to a press release from Maplewood police, officers and paramedics responded to a call to a home in the 2200
block of Hazel Street at 4:47 a.m. on the report that a man had been shot.
Wright was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police say a woman who was in the home during the shooting, but she was not injured.
Late Saturday morning, investigators found a discarded gun on a driveway nearby. It's currently being inspected at the
Bureau of Criminal Apprehension lab to determine if it might lead to any suspects.
"This has been a very active investigation," Maplewood Police Chief Paul Schnell said in the press release. "Investigators
have established a lengthy list of people they plan to interview who could hold critical information to help in identifying the
suspect."
This homicide case is being investigated by the Maplewood Police Department with assistance from the Minnesota Bureau of
Criminal Apprehension and the Ramsey County Violent Crime Enforcement Team.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Maplewood Police Department at 651-767-0640. You can also send an
anonymous text message tip to investigators by texting the keyword Maplewood followed by the tip information to TIP41 1
(847411).
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