In the late hours of a November evening in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a confrontation rooted in wounded pride spiraled into a fatal encounter for Rashaad L. Van Pelt, a 32-year-old Black / African American male. The tragic sequence of events began with a verbal dispute a few hours before the shooting on November 20, 2021. Van Pelt had a conversation with a man named Dontaye Javonne Thomas, mentioning he had heard Thomas had been beaten up. This remark angered Thomas, who left the scene and set in mo
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