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Today in Minneapolis, the girlfriend of a suspected shooter made a public plea for him to turn himself in and come home. Alfredo Gonzalez is 19 years old, and he is suspected of murdering his girlfriend's cousin, Jacob MacKenzie. Gonzales is currently nowhere to be found, but his girlfriend and her family are desperately hoping that he is alive and well. The 15 year old boy lived in the 500 block of Concord Street in West St. Paul, and also died in his home. Police are unsure as to what caused the shooting, but a possible weapon from the scene was found in the woods nearby. A poem from the perspective of Jayna Emerson, the girlfriend and cousin, might go something like this:

you complete me/but you took something away
he never did anything wrong.
only four years younger than you/i don't know what to say
gunshots at midnight
now instead of having both of you/i have neither
was there anything i could have done?
nobody saw this coming/the second teenager to die
this weekend.

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/34545259.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsr