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   From: tim-walz-is-a-bitch@minnesota.guv   
      
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   Hennepin County Jail   
      
   More charges have been filed against the man accused of shooting at Minnesota   
   National Guard members in north Minneapolis on Sunday.   
      
   Andrew Thomas, 28, was charged earlier this week in federal court with felony   
   weapons possession in connection to the April 18 drive-by shooting.   
      
   And on Wednesday, Thomas was charged in Hennepin County District Court with   
   three counts of first-degree assault against a peace officer, two counts of   
   second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of illegal weapons   
   possession.   
      
   Thomas, who is listed as from Minneapolis with no fixed address, was arrested   
   and booked into Hennepin County Jail early Monday before being released to   
   federal officials the next morning, jail records show.   
      
   Thomas is accused of shooting at the two soldiers near Penn Avenue North and   
   West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis while they were on patrol as part of   
   Operation Safety Net, the joint law enforcement effort launched for Derek   
   Chauvin's murder trial.   
      
   According to the criminal complaint, Thomas fired "multiple" shots from an SUV   
   at two Minneapolis squad cars and three National Guard vehicles at 4:19 a.m.   
   Sunday and then fled at a "high rate of speed" but officers were unsuccessful   
   in their pursuit.   
      
   Two soldiers were injured, including injuries from glass fragments to the eye   
   and cuts on the face from the glass, the complaint states.   
      
   One guard member said he believed he saw two people in the SUV and the driver   
   was the one shooting.   
      
   Surveillance video captured the shooting and the vehicle. And later that day   
   officers observed an SUV matching the suspect vehicle description. It was   
   spotted at about 9:52 p.m. Sunday in the area of 6th Street South and Cedar   
   Avenue South in Minneapolis.   
      
   Police started to follow the suspect vehicle, which then began making "evasive   
   driving movements," charges state. Officers stopped the SUV when it turned   
   into a parking lot at 2100 Bloomington Ave. S in Minneapolis.   
      
   There were two people inside the SUV: Thomas, who was the driver and   
   registered owner of the SUV, and a girl, the complaint says.   
      
   The girl said she met Thomas at a motel in St. Paul the week before and they   
   were going to get food, charges say. She didn't know he had a gun until he   
   took it out of the center console.   
      
   Police recovered a 9mm semi-automatic handgun in a brown purse in the front   
   passenger seat, a handgun case, a partial box of ammunition, two handgun   
   magazines, a cell phone, a bindle of suspected drugs, and a .22 caliber   
   revolver in the back of the    
   vehicle, charges say. Discarded cartridges matched the semi-automatic gun and   
   cell phone tower data placed Thomas' phone on the area of the shooting.   
      
   Thomas has a prior conviction for third-degree assault, making him prohibited   
   from possessing firearms and ammunition, the complaint states.   
      
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