St. Paul community leaders speak out against spike violence [Video]

St. Paul Police and community leadership groups are speaking out against a spike in violence there over the last few weeks.

In a little under two months, nine homicides have occurred in St. Paul.

It’s a number Chief Axel Henry says is far too many and is largely driven by guns getting into the wrong hands, he says if you see something say something.

“Everyone behind me and many more people that aren’t here today, stand ready to broker whatever the trust divide is preventing people from calling out the behavior in advance,” says Henry. “So we are not responding to crimes, we are not trying to apprehend offenders, we’re preventing crimes.”

So far this year 95 people have been injured by gunfire in St. Paul. Henry says that number is down 40 percent from when he started in 2022, but a recent string of violence has him and others …