A 23-year-old Minneapolis man is facing felony charges after police say he fired several shots at a car outside a Saint Paul home on the night of September 28, sending the woman inside fleeing into the night and leaving a bullet fragment lodged in her pocket. Dsean Daniel Larkins now faces two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in Ramsey County District Court.
According to the criminal complaint detailed by mncrime.com, police responded to a home in Saint Paul at about 12:30 a.m. that Tuesday after a report of an assault involving a firearm. The victim told officers the shooting had actually happened the previous night, as she was getting ready to go bowling with a man and Larkins arrived and became upset.
The victim said Larkins fired several shots at her and the man while they sat together in a vehicle outside her residence, and the pair drove away from the scene as the gunfire rang out. It wasn’t until later that the woman realized how close she had come to being hit: she felt a tingling sensation in her left leg and discovered a bullet fragment in her pocket, though officers observed no bruising on her.
Shell Casings and a Revealing Phone Call
Neighbors who heard the gunfire collected three shell casings from outside the home, according to the same account. Investigators also had the victim call Larkins directly, a conversation in which he admitted he was angry and asked whether the incident would make him a felon…