The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a crash that left a motorcyclist dead Wednesday afternoon in Little Canada.

Saint Paul police say they were called to the 1200 block of University Avenue West just before 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday after a 911 caller reported hearing gunshots and seeing someone lying on the ground.

Saint Paul police say a man was shot and killed just after noon Tuesday in a busy area on the city’s east side. Officers responded to multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire at a business in the 1300 block of Maryland Avenue East.

Roseville police say three people are dead and one is critically injured after an incident around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. According to a media release, Roseville Police were called to an apartment building on the 1600 block of Eldridge Avenue at 2:24 a.m. on a welfare check.

Ramsey County prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old man with three felony counts of criminal vehicular operation causing substantial bodily harm after he was allegedly speeding down Virginia Street last Sunday, struck a building and another vehicle. The suspect, Dung Dinh Pham, also faces a gross misdemeanor charge of criminal vehicular operation causing bodily harm.

Police were called just before 5:45 a.m., to an apartment on the 1400 block of Minnehaha Ave. E. on a report of a person shot. An adult female victim with an apparent gunshot wound was found inside an apartment. She was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Prosecutors have charged two people in connection with a crime spree that included a dog thrown from a vehicle during a pursuit and multiple victims violently carjacked. The dog, Taho, was thrown from the rear passenger door and rolled multiple times on the pavement due to the truck’s speed. He is now being cared for by a dog rescue and rehab organization.

The Spring Lake Park – Blaine – Mounds View Fire Department responded to a structure fire Sunday just before 11 a.m. on a report of smoke showing from a residence on the 7000 block of Groveland Road. In a media release, SBM Chief Dan Retka says crews arrived and found fire on the main level of the home.  A neighbor reported to firefighters that the homeowner may still have been inside the home.

The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating two separate crashes which occurred just minutes apart in Ramsey County that left two people dead and at least one with serious injuries.

Ramsey County investigators are searching for a suspect after a woman was reportedly kidnapped and carjacked in Arden Hills on Tuesday morning. Police say the incident occurred around 7:25 a.m. Sept. 13 on the 3900 block of Northwoods Drive. A 61-year-old woman was approached by an armed man after she parked her car in an underground ramp.

A Saint Paul man who earlier pleaded guilty to four felonies for coercing young girls to create sexually explicit photos and videos in a worldwide online extortion scheme learned his fate Wednesday in federal court. Yue Vang, 31, was sentenced to 516 months—or 43 years—in federal prison Sept. 14 and will remain on supervised release for the remainder of his life.

NEW BRIGHTON—The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office says crews recovered the body of a man in his 70s who was believed to have been fishing at Long Lake on Monday afternoon.

Officers from multiple agencies were searching the area of Vadnais Lake on Friday evening for a reportedly suicidal woman and her three children. According to initial law enforcement dispatch audio reviewed by MN CRIME, the woman’s husband reportedly died by suicide today and the woman then threatened to kill herself and her children.

Multiple serious injuries were reported after a suspect driving a stolen vehicle fled from Ramsey County deputies before crashing into a yard late Friday afternoon. Deputies initiated a pursuit on Larpenteur Ave. near White Bear Ave. after learning the vehicle was previously stolen. The driver sped off while deputies pursued and followed the vehicle from a distance.