On a cold Friday night in March, the kind of evening that still clings to the dregs of winter, 32-year-old White/Caucasian male Thomas John Russ of Minneapolis found himself at a park-and-ride ramp in Minnetonka. It was March 3, 2017, and what began as a simple errand to fix a flat tire would end in a sudden and violent tragedy. Russ was at the Metro Transit ramp off Interstate 394 with his girlfriend, her brother Marcus Hallmark, and another woman.
The group had driven to the parking str
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