Police release man arrested in Maplewood shooting

Published 9:30 am Tuesday, October 28, 2014

MAPLEWOOD — Police are asking for the public’s help in finding the people who fatally shot a man outside a Maplewood strip mall.

Police said they released a 19-year-old man from custody Monday pending further investigation after arresting him Saturday. They said 25-year-old Terrence Woods of St. Paul was killed in the Saturday shooting in front of Merwin Liquors after being shot in the back. Twenty-four-year-old Jamil Ellis of St. Paul was wounded.

Police said three young men approached Woods, Ellis and a third companion outside the liquor store Sunday and asked them to buy alcohol for them. They said the older men refused and the younger men later shot at them from a white sedan. The shooters’ car was caught on surveillance video.

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