The man responsible for attempting to flee the scene of a car crash has been charged after a Good Samaritan who tried to stop him was shot and killed.
On Tuesday, Robert David Lloyd Hall, 36, of Golden Valley, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, one count of robbery, and one count of possessing ammunition or a firearm as a person convicted in a separate instance of a crime of violence, a criminal complaint reported.
According to a criminal complaint, on Nov. 12 at 9:49 a.m. Minneapolis police responded to a car crash call at the intersection of Broadway Avenue West and Lyndale Avenue North.
The report said there were two vehicles involved and a subsequent shooting.
After arriving, the officer found a man, now identified as Kavanian Palmer, with a gunshot wound to the chest lying in the intersection. The officers pronounced him dead at the scene.
Palmer was just 21-years-old and intervened after two vehicles, one driven by Hall, crashed into each other. After getting out of his vehicle, Hall attempted to run from the scene, and police learned that Palmer ran after him in an attempt to stop him.
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It was then that Hall reportedly shot Palmer in the chest, leaving him to die.
"He liked to protect. He liked to help. He liked to make sure people were good like me; he had a good heart," Palmer's mother said at a news conference on Tuesday.
"He went out of his way to help someone," she said.
After the shooting, Hall ran to a nearby Cub Foods parking lot and tried to steal a woman's vehicle, but several people intervened and stopped him until police arrived.
Hall reportedly was carrying a bulletproof vest and a backpack containing narcotics and had a .357-caliber firearm in his vehicle.
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Palmer's mother addressed the media — after charges were brought against Hall — in heartbreaking fashion.
"All I had was my son and my daughter. Now all I have is my daughter," Palmer's mother said, fighting back tears.
Palmer's mother added that her life would never be the same thanks to Hall's actions.
"I hope he rots because I am going to be feeling like this for the rest of my life until it's my time to go," Palmer's mother said. "I can't get my son back, and it hurts. I can't stop crying, and I haven't slept."
The Palmer family has set up a GoFundMe to help with the expenses of his funeral and burial.
