Two St. Paul teenagers have been charged in the fatal shooting of a man who was “hunted” before being gunned down in front of family members in the city’s Frogtown neighborhood.
Jehovah Mekieyale Nelson, 19, and Kenneth Eugene Terry, 18, have each been charged in the shooting death of 24-year-old Dejaun Hemphill on Nov. 5, 2024, near Rice Street and University Avenue.
Hemphill ultimately died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head 10 days after the shooting, according to an autopsy. A surgeon told police that Hemphill’s case was “one of the worst she had worked on.”
Nelson and Terry were both arrested on Thursday…