A Maple Grove man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl in Brooklyn Park last month.
Melchizedek Erastuscorboi Kpaan, 25, is charged with one count of second-degree intentional murder and one count of possessing a firearm as a felon.
According to court documents, Brooklyn Park police officers were dispatched to a reported shooting July 1 on the 7000 block of Lakeland Avenue North. Responding officers found a teenage victim, later identified as Zoe Dekontee Kpanlin of Elk River, with a life-threatening gunshot wound to the chest…