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Police identify man killed in St. Paul funeral home shooting

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Updated: Feb. 22, 5:10 p.m.

Police in St. Paul say one person was killed and three others were injured, one critically, in a shooting Monday outside a funeral home on the city's west side.

St. Paul police said 28-year-old Agustin Martinez, of Crystal, died in a hail of gunfire Monday outside the Simple Traditions by Bradshaw Funeral Home on the city's west side. Three other men were hospitalized, including one who was critically injured.

Police said there were multiple shooters and are asking for people with more information to come forward. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday.

“There were bullets flying around. A very dangerous kind of situation,"  St. Paul police spokesperson Steve Linders said at a news conference.

Investigators believe all of the people involved in the shooting were there to attend services for 26-year-old Casanova Carter, who was fatally shot in St. Paul on Feb. 1. There have been no arrests made in connection with Carter's death.

It's the latest to occur at metro funerals or vigils. Last June, a man was shot and killed while attending services for one of two men killed in a mass shooting outside a Minneapolis nightclub. There were two similar incidents in 2018 and 2019.

There have been eight homicides in St. Paul this year, following a record of 38 in the city last year.

Monday's shooting happened about 11:20 a.m., Linders said. A man in his 20s was shot in the abdomen, back and legs and is currently listed in critical condition. Another man in his 20s and a man in his 30s were injured.

A 17-year-old was dropped off at a hospital with three gunshot wounds, but it's not clear if he was at the site of the shooting outside the funeral home, Linders said. He added that it does not appear to be a random incident.

“It's a tragedy on top of a tragedy," Linders said. "A family was there to gather to mourn, to celebrate a life, and the shooters, they took another life."

Mandy Fallon, who was in the area at the time, said she heard multiple gunshots fired rapidly.

Fallon said the sound of gunshots in the neighborhood is not unusual, but the fact it happened on a Monday morning was chilling.

“Honestly, it shook me to my absolute core,” she told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.