Overview

• Authorities named the two women killed as Marisa Ardys Casebolt and Liberty Borg, both 25 and from Minneapolis.
• A 6-year-old boy who was in their vehicle sustained noncritical injuries and is expected to survive.
• Police say the incident began around 8 a.m. with reports of a man with a gun that escalated to a carjacking of a black Volkswagen and reports of shots fired.
• Officers tracked the stolen car and initiated a pursuit at about 8:36 a.m., which ended roughly three minutes later when the suspect crashed into the victims’ Ford Fusion at Penn Avenue North and Olson Memorial Highway.
• The suspect, a 45-year-old man from St. Paul, was taken into custody with non-life-threatening injuries; a firearm and three dogs were recovered from the vehicle, with one dog later euthanized.