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Accused as an Accomplice in the 2023 Murder of St. Cloud Man Arrested
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Accused as an Accomplice in the 2023 Murder of St. Cloud Man Arrested

ST. CLOUDY (WJON News) — Officials say St. He arrested a man wanted in connection with Cloud’s murder. twenty nine years old Antoine Williams He was booked into the Stearns County Jail on Wednesday.

Williams accused of supplying stolen gun to 27-year-old Deionte Parker 34-year-old young man died in an armed attack Antonio Harris Jr. last October.

Williams is accused of stealing a .40-caliber handgun from a home at an after-bar party in Cold Spring in December 2022. According to the criminal complaint, that gun was used in the killing of Harris in 2023. The attack is believed to be in retaliation for a stabbing that occurred in July 2023.

St. The St. Cloud Police Department said officers responded to a report of multiple shots fired in the 700 block of 6th Avenue South just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 22, 2023. When the police arrived, they found several people in the house.

Authorities say a disagreement during a meeting at the home led to the shooting.

The victim is Antonio Harris Jr. of Buffalo. He died at the scene. The other two assault victims, a 26-year-old man and a 52-year-old man, were treated and taken to St. He was released from St. Cloud Hospital. Eyewitnesses said Harris was trying to broker a ceasefire between the two sides when he was shot.

Days later, police were called to a neighbor’s home. The caller told police a gun was found on the roof of his home. Police recovered the gun, and court records claim it matched the gun stolen in Cold Spring and the bullet casings found at the scene.

Parker was eventually arrested and charged with 2nd degree murderbeing a armed felon and 2nd degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

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Williams was wanted by police until his arrest Wednesday. He is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and being a armed criminal. Williams is also charged separately in the gun theft case, due in December 2022.

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