MINNEAPOLIS — Police have arrested a 17-year-old on probable cause murder charges in connection with the Jan. 10 homicide of Otis R. Elder — the underlying case behind a no-knock warrant and predawn raid that killed 22-year-old Amir Locke.
Officers responded to a 911 call in St. Paul's Hamline-Midway neighborhood last month, where they found Elder, 38, suffering from a gunshot wound in the street outside a recording studio on the 500 block of N. Prior Avenue. He later died at Regions Hospital.
As their investigation progressed last week, St. Paul police filed standard applications for search warrant affidavits for three separate apartments at the Bolero Flats Apartment Homes, at 1117 S. Marquette Av., in downtown Minneapolis. But detectives were forced to resubmit the requests after Minneapolis police insisted on a no-knock operation.
