A West St. Paul man on bail in connection with a February shooting in St. Paul was shot at his house Friday, police said.
Officers called to 210 Logan Ave. W. about 9:45 p.m. found 25-year-old Daiezon Broadbent inside the house with a gunshot wound to his side. He was transported to the hospital with an injury not considered life-threatening, West St. Paul police Lt. Brian Sturgeon said.
Broadbent was charged Feb. 9 in Ramsey County with two counts of aiding an offender after 20-year-old D’Onjay Jackson was shot in the head Feb. 6 in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. Jackson survived the shooting. Broadbent has pleaded not guilty in the case, which is ongoing.
Broadbent is the brother of Lavauntai Broadbent, who was fatally shot in St. Paul in 2015 after police say he and three other juvenile males tried to rob a man at Summit Avenue and Mississippi River Boulevard. The would-be victim, who had a permit to carry a handgun, pulled his own weapon and shot Broadbent, who was to start 11th grade at Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights.
On Friday night, a shooter stood outside Daiezon Broadbent’s West St. Paul house and fired several bullets through a living-room window. It appears that Broadbent, who was hit once, was the intended target, Sturgeon said.
“This was not a random act,” he said.
No arrests have been made, said Sturgeon, who added that investigators are following up several leads.
“We’re looking at all the possibilities,” he said, when asked about a possible motive.
The brothers’ mother, Leann Broadbent, owns the house, which police records show has been a magnet for trouble.
Officers have been called to the small brick 1950s-era rambler 43 times over the past year, records show.
“It is definitely a house on our radar,” Sturgeon said.
Two calls were for alleged drug-related offenses, while disturbances prompted five other calls. Six times officers assisted other law enforcement agencies in various investigations. The rest of the calls for service were for code enforcement violations or animal-related complaints.
Broadbent has owned the house since April 2012. When contacted Monday and asked about Friday’s shooting, she declined to comment.
“Everybody is fine,” she said, then hung up.
Sturgeon said Broadbent has been issued administrative citations for repeat nuisance calls relating to pit bulls “getting out and chasing people, and failure to license them … things of that nature.”
On Monday, Ward 2 City Council Member Anthony Fernandez called the shooting “unsettling and scary stuff” and that the city is “going to make sure that one house on the block doesn’t spoil it for everybody else.”
Mara Gottfried contributed to this report.