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Investigators released more details Monday about a 

The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said St. Paul police officers Eric Jaworski and Matthew Foy, who each have a decade of law enforcement experience, shot and killed Mychel Allan Stowers on Saturday afternoon. 

The BCA said police were looking for Stowers as part of a homicide investigation and responded to a tip that the 36-year-old was at a business in the 1100 block of West 7th Street.  

Multiple squad cars converged on Stowers after officers spotted him on a bicycle. 

“Before officers could confirm his identity, the man, now identified as Stowers, produced a handgun and pointed it at the officers. Jaworski and Foy discharged their firearms, striking Stowers,” the statement from the BCA said. 

Ramsey County prosecutors had charged Stowers in the Oct. 19 killing of his pregnant ex-wife, Damara Alexis Stowers, 35, and with shooting and wounding a man during a carjacking on Acker Street the same evening. 

A Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office employee said they received a call from Stowers on Oct. 19. He allegedly said that he had shot someone on Acker Street and wanted to turn himself in but did not end up doing so. 

According to the criminal complaint, Stowers was released from prison on March 28 after serving about 16 years of a 25 1/2 year sentence for shooting and killing a man in St. Paul in 2008. Under Minnesota law, most people convicted of felonies must serve two thirds of their sentence in prison before they are eligible for supervised release.

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The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said St. Paul police officers Eric Jaworski and Matthew Foy shot and killed Mychel Allan Stowers on Saturday afternoon. 

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BCA: St. Paul police killed homicide suspect after he pointed gun at officers

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