FBI offers $10,000 reward in Columbia Heights homicide

Published 3:34 pm Saturday, May 13, 2017

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS — The FBI is offering a reward up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted in a fatal shooting in Columbia Heights.

Forty-one-year-old Phillip Leron Miller of Brooklyn Park is wanted in connection with the April 20 death of 31-year-old Philip Charles Borer Nelson of St. Louis Park.

Nelson’s body was found in a Columbia Heights apartment. He’d been shot multiple times.

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Miller is charged with murder, as well as unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

Authorities said he has ties to Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, and Columbia Heights, as well as Chicago. The FBI and Anoka County Sheriff’s Office are searching for Miller. They said he’s armed and dangerous.