St. Paul man sentenced for downtown shooting that wounded three

A gunman was sentenced to nearly five years in prison Monday for a 2023 robbery at a St. Paul park and a June shooting that wounded three at a downtown pool party.

Tyson Joseph Volk, 20, received his sentence in Ramsey County District Court after pleading guilty to the two cases in August. Three counts of attempted second-degree murder filed in the shooting were dismissed as part of a plea deal he reached with the prosecution.

According to court records, Volk was out on bond in the robbery case when he fired a 9 mm handgun nine times on June 21 at the rooftop pool at Kellogg Square apartments at Kellogg Boulevard and Robert Street.

The shooting was fueled by a physical fight a month earlier between Volk and a 23-year-old man, the criminal complaint said.

On the rooftop, Volk and another man approached the 23-year-old, who then punched Volk. Volk stumbled backward, pulled out a 9 mm handgun and started firing.

The man was struck in the knee, while a 20-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the pelvis. A 16-year-old boy was hit in the ankle.

Marquez Demar Hill-Turnipseed then fired shots toward Volk, according to a complaint charging the 23-year-old with possession of a firearm by a person who was ineligible due to a conviction of a crime of violence.

Earlier cases

Less than three weeks earlier, on June 1, Hill-Turnipseed allegedly fired a barrage of bullets from a Dodge Challenger into several groups of people at Boom Island Park along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, a shooting that killed 23-year-old Stageina Whiting and wounded four men.