St. Paul police releases bodycam of standoff with triple homicide suspect

ST. PAUL, MN - The St. Paul Police Department in Minnesota has released bodyworn camera footage that shows the dramatic end of a standoff between officers and the suspect in a Minneapolis triple homicide.

According to reporting from Fox9, St. Paul Police responded to a call reporting shots fired on the evening of October 28th and encountered a man, identified as Earl Bennett, who drew a firearm and began a standoff in the middle of the street holding the gun to his own head. Officers reportedly attempted to negotiate with the man to no avail. Bennett reportedly turned his weapon on the officers and they opened fire.

The Bodycam footage released by the Police Department shows the interaction between Bennett and the officers in detail, just as the officers described. Bennett is seen holding a gun to his head while verbally engaging with them as he paced the middle of an intersection until he leveled the pistol at the officers and they opened fire. Although he verbally told the officers that the gun wasn't loaded, he continued to hold it as if it were.

Bennett survived the hail of gunfire with serious injuries and was transported to an area hospital.

Fire Photographer Shane B. Murphy shared clips of the footage via X. 
 
Police Chief Brian O’Hara of the neighboring Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement that Bennett was wanted in connection to a series of shootings "at a small homeless encampment."

The statement explained that a single shooting occurred at a residence or sober house they believe he is connected with and at a triple shooting at the homeless encampment. "Two men died at the scene and a woman was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries from that shooting. "

O'Hara told reporters that MPD investigators are working "diligently with the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to see appropriate criminal charges are filed and this man is held accountable for the two shootings in Minneapolis which involved two homicides and two injured people."
 
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