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Community seeks bodycam video in St. Paul police shooting

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Community members are calling for the quick release of body camera video after a Minnesota officer shot and killed a man, who police say had a gun. Family members identified the man as 24-year-old Howard Johnson. He was shot by a St. Paul police officer on Monday. The St. Paul Police Department says officers were responding to a domestic assault Monday evening and were told by the caller that the man had a gun. He fled before officers arrived. Police say they found him with a gun in his hand as he appeared to be attempting a carjacking. Johnson was hit in the torso and leg and died at a hospital.

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