ST. PAUL, Minn. — A St. Paul man is accused of killing his girlfriend’s estranged husband nearly a year after the husband allegedly shot the boyfriend in both legs.
The 32-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents filed in Ramsey County Wednesday.
The criminal complaint states the boyfriend was shot while outside working on a car on the 800 block of York Avenue on Aug. 29, 2023. The boyfriend said he did not know who shot him, but the girlfriend told police her estranged husband shot him “out of jealousy.”
The husband was not charged for that shooting “because the case could not be proved against him beyond a reasonable doubt,” the complaint said.
On Monday, about 10 months after that shooting, police responded to the same address to find the husband shot in the chest . He died at the scene. The Ramsey County medical examiner identified the victim as 35-year-old Jonathon Diaz of St. Paul.