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.
Hill-Turnipseed, of Minneapolis, was charged under a sealed complaint with aiding and abetting murder and other counts. He was arrested in early July in Chicago.
Both cases against him are pending.
In Volk’s robbery case, a 19-year-old man told St. Paul police he went to Weida Park in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood to smoke marijuana with two acquaintances just after midnight Oct. 2, 2023.
He said Volk pulled out a handgun, pointed it at his face and then pistol-whipped him while a juvenile recorded the incident on a cellphone. He was robbed of his iPhone, clothes and Nike Air Force shoes. Police found two videos of the robbery on Volk’s phone.
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