RED WING, Minn. — Prosecutors in Goodhue County have filed murder charges after a man was found shot to death on a city sidewalk earlier this week in Red Wing.
Charles Deonta Jones, 26, faces two counts of second-degree murder, one count of third-degree murder and one count of second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Dangelo Masterjohn, the Goodhue County attorney’s office announced Wednesday. A second-degree murder charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
The complaint alleges that Jones shot the 27-year-old Masterjohn in the chest at short range early Tuesday morning. Masterjohn was found unconscious on a sidewalk in the 400 block of Sanderson Street.
Jones, who was being held in Pierce County, Wis., on Wednesday, is expected to appear in a Wisconsin court for possible extradition to Goodhue County. No court date was provided.
Red Wing police said Tuesday that a “person of interest” was arrested in Pierce County shortly after the shooting on an unrelated offense.
Jones was booked into the Pierce County Jail later Tuesday morning on a charge of knowingly fleeing an officer, according to jail records. His residence was listed as an address in Red Wing.
Masterjohn was convicted of aiding a fellow gang member in the October 2012 shooting death of Naressa Turner as she sat in a car in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. He served 30 days in jail for withholding information from police.
Turner’s murder was in retaliation for her “reputed involvement” in the February 2012 killing of an East Side Boys gang member, police said.
This report includes information from the Forum News Service.