Shoreview shooting looked at as a murder-suicide

Published 10:51 am Thursday, June 6, 2013

SHOREVIEW — Authorities are investigating a shooting in Shoreview that left two dead as a murder-suicide.

The Ramsey County sheriff’s office Wednesday identified the victims as 57-year-old Nancy Sullivan, a lawyer at a Minneapolis law firm, and her boyfriend, 65-year-old Johnny Lee Simpson.

Sullivan was shot and killed Tuesday as she was moving out of a house she shared with Simpson. The Ramsey County sheriff’s office says Simpson is the suspect.

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Two other people were wounded. Neighbor Roger Menk says the wounded woman is Sullivan’s daughter and the wounded man is the daughter’s boyfriend.

A hospital spokeswoman said that 29-year-old Kathleen Maureen Fay of St. Paul remains in critical condition. She had no information on the wounded man, 28-year-old Tony Sewell Brown, also of St. Paul.