Teen Will Trial Stand As Adult In Shooting Of Maple Grove Man

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A Coon Rapids teenager has been certified to stand trial as an adult on two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a Maple Grove man sitting in his car, authorities announced Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking $1.5 million in bail.

Jered Ohsman, 17, also was ordered to stand trial as an adult on two counts of first-degree robbery. After seven days of hearings, a Hennepin County District Court juvenile judge ruled Tuesday that Ohsman should stand trial as an adult on the robbery charges and for second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree murder while committing another felony.

Police say Ohsman was 16 when he committed those crimes in early June as part of a four-day crime spree. He is to make his first court appearance at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

According to the criminal complaint for the two second-degree murder charges, 39-year-old Steven Markey of Maple Grove was shot at 4:50 p.m. June 11 while in his car at the intersection of 14th Avenue NE and Tyler Street NE in Minneapolis.

Following a Minneapolis police investigation with multiple witnesses, surveillance footage and crime scene forensics, it was determined that Ohsman and a 15-year-old accomplice planned to steal the victim’s parked car and rob him, according to authorities.

Armed with guns and wearing bandanas over their faces, both youths approached Markey’s car, police said. Both fired their guns at some point, according to authorities, wounding the victim three times, in the wrist, left bicep and left shoulder area. He tried to drive away but crashed his vehicle into a nearby building a block from the shooting. He later died from the gunshot wounds at Hennepin County Medical Center, the complaint states.

Following the shooting, the teens ran through alleyways behind buildings on Tyler Street, police said. Surveillance footage showed the duo changing clothes and hiding a backpack that police later found contained the weapons used during the shooting, the complaint continues.

After officers determined that Ohsman was a suspect in the shooting, they discovered that he and the other teen were arrested together 12 hours later on suspicion of auto theft and burglary.

Case details describe Ohsman and the 15-year-old assaulting a victim in downtown Minneapolis and stealing a car in St. Louis Park later that night. That car was then used to commit a burglary in New Hope, authorities said. Ohsman and the other teen were eventually arrested by police in New Hope after Oshman crashed the stolen vehicle while trying to flee officers, the complaint states.

The other two robberies for which Ohsman was certified as an adult occurred on June 9, police said. One was at 3:40 a.m. near 31st Street and Emerson Avenue South, where the two youths walked up to a woman getting into her car, pointed a gun, demanded the keys and drove off in her car, authorities said. The second robbery occurred at 5 a.m., when the pair walked up to a man near Eighth Avenue and Fourth Street Southeast, put a gun to his head and stole his keys, phone and anything else in his pockets, police said. They took the items and drove away in the man’s car, police said.

Hearings are continuing on whether the 15-year-old should be certified as an adult, according to a news release.