The brother of a man charged in the fatal St. Paul shooting of former NDSCS basketball player Dion Lamarr Ford Jr. last week also fired shots during the incident in the North End, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
The Ramsey County attorney’s office charged D’Angelo Semaj Dampier, 19, with aiding an offender by being an accomplice after the fact, and three counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by an ineligible person.
On Thursday about 9:15 p.m., Dion Lamarr Ford Jr. left the Maryland Supermarket at Maryland Avenue and Arundel Street. Xavion Tyrece Bell attempted to rob him, according to murder charges filed against him Friday.
Ford, who had a permit to carry a handgun, then shot Bell. Bell was also carrying a gun, which he fired repeatedly at Ford, a complaint said.
Ford suffered a gunshot wound to the head and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. Bell, 21, was critically injured with a gunshot wound to his back and remained hospitalized as of Tuesday, according to police.
Police arrested Dampier, who is Bell’s brother, on Monday. He said he didn’t know Ford and didn’t think Bell did, either.
Ford graduated from St. Paul’s Central High School in 2019. He was an all-conference basketball player who went on to play basketball at Lake Region State College in North Dakota, Casper College in Wyoming and North Dakota State College of Science.
Dampier initially said he fired five to six times, and then said he fired until his handgun’s magazine was empty. He also said he took home the guns that he and Bell used, but he didn’t know where they ended up, according to the complaint.
Police carried out a search warrant at Dampier’s address in St. Paul on Monday and found a backpack that contained several handgun magazines and loose rounds of various calibers.
Dampier is not eligible to possess firearms or ammunition because of an adjudication when he was a juvenile for robbery, the complaint said.
