Stephan arrested after shooting man at a St. Paul Minnesota wedding
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2025 5:07 am
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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA - A guest at a wedding in a Maplewood park pulled out a gun and shot a man who was arguing with the groom, according to charges filed Friday.
Police were sent to Keller Lake Regional Park about 5:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and found a 36-year-old St. Paul man on the ground in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. Good Samaritans had removed their belts and wrapped them on the man’s legs to stop the bleeding. He was taken to Regions Hospital and survived.
The man’s 7-year-old daughter told officers that her dad was talking to the groom, and that it looked like they might be getting into an argument. A third man with long dreadlocks approached, and she thought he was going to split the two men up.
Instead, the girl told police, the third man pulled out a handgun and shot her father, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday in Ramsey County District Court.
Witnesses told police that the third man, who was later identified as Stephan Andrew James, of South St. Paul, then ran across the parking lot and got into a Dodge SUV. He left after a woman and three children got inside the SUV.
An investigator spoke to the wedding photographer, who said he saw the St. Paul man and groom hug and walk a short distance. He heard shouting, saw James shove the man, then heard “two bangs,” the complaint says.
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