'The only thing my mother said she feels right now is sadness,' said her daughter Laura, who translated her comments. She didn't know 'why anybody would do this to us.' The family was planning to meet his girlfriend and go dancing the day he was shot. Gang violence has been relatively dormant across the city since fall, but police officials have seen an upswing in the past month.Īugustin's mother, Leonor, said Monday he wasn't in a gang. Both homicides appear to be gang-related, but police continue to investigate whether the victims or suspects have gang affiliations. Hands shaking, his friends held his head as he bled to death.įour hours later, police were looking for connections in the drive-by shooting death of an 18-year-old man in Richfield. Bullets hit Augustin in the chest and abdomen. Augustin planned to call his mom for a lift back home.īut then a car full of teens drove up, words were exchanged and shots were fired. The group dropped off a car for an oil change about 2 p.m. The 14-year-old got a ride from his home in Plymouth to hook up with some former school friends in Minneapolis and download music. Saturday was another typical day in the teenage life of Augustin Andrade Navarro.
