On Halloween night in 2020, a small gathering in a Crystal, Minnesota, home turned tragic, ending the life of 26-year-old Maricio Mata-Thelen, a Hispanic male from St. Paul. The evening of October 31st was shattered by the sound of a gunshot inside a residence on the 5500 block of Yates Avenue North. When Crystal police officers arrived around 9 p.m., they found Mata-Thelen on the floor, bleeding from a fatal gunshot wound to his torso. Despite attempts by first responders to save him, he was pr
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