As ex-Minnesota police officer Kim Potter is out on $100,000 bond, awaiting a manslaughter trial in the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, victims of his alleged gun violence are still reeling from trauma and top Democrats who flocked to his funeral have gone quiet.
Wright is accused of shooting a teen and a former classmate on separate occasions in a pair of civil lawsuits against his estate.
In May 2019, 16-year-old Caleb Livingston was at a Full Stop gas station in Minneapolis when Wright allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, according to one of the lawsuits.
Livingston is now in a "vegetative state" known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, according to attorney Mike Padden, who is representing both plaintiffs against Wright’s estate.
Seven months later, Wright was charged with aggravated robbery after a young woman accused him of holding her at gunpoint, choking her and demanding she hand him hundreds of dollars.
Wright and a friend attended a party at the home of two women, then slept over on the floor. The next morning, the victim’s roommate handed her $820 in cash for rent. After she left, Wright allegedly blocked the remaining woman in the apartment and shoved a pistol in her face.
"Give me the f------ money," he told her, according to the criminal complaint. "I know you have it."
Then he wrapped his fingers around her throat and "choked her while trying to pull the cash out from under her bra," she told police. She began to scream, he tried choking her again, and he eventually left empty-handed.
Wright later violated the terms of his probation in the robbery case and was accused of waving a black handgun near a Minneapolis intersection before ditching it and fleeing on foot, eluding responding officers. When police pulled him over in April, they found he had a warrant connected with that incident and attempted to arrest him.
Three weeks before his death, Wright and an accomplice allegedly shot former classmate Joshua Hodges in the leg and stole his car, according to the second civil lawsuit.
The accomplice’s bullet is said to have broken his fibula, struck an artery and left permanent damage.
Hodges was able to identify Wright because, before the carjacking, he got out of a different vehicle without a mask on – and the two made contact, according to the lawsuit. Wright allegedly masked up and proceeded anyway.
"[Wright] was accidentally killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer on April 11, 2021, approximately three weeks after his crimes against [Hodges]," the civil complaint reads. "After that accidental death, a false narrative began establishing [Wright] as a young person that young people looked up to, when in fact a warrant was in place for his violations of law on bond for a past crime. [He] had previously chosen a life of crime."
Wright is accused of shooting a teen and a former classmate on separate occasions in a pair of civil lawsuits against his estate.
In May 2019, 16-year-old Caleb Livingston was at a Full Stop gas station in Minneapolis when Wright allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him in the head, according to one of the lawsuits.
Livingston is now in a "vegetative state" known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome, according to attorney Mike Padden, who is representing both plaintiffs against Wright’s estate.
Seven months later, Wright was charged with aggravated robbery after a young woman accused him of holding her at gunpoint, choking her and demanding she hand him hundreds of dollars.
Wright and a friend attended a party at the home of two women, then slept over on the floor. The next morning, the victim’s roommate handed her $820 in cash for rent. After she left, Wright allegedly blocked the remaining woman in the apartment and shoved a pistol in her face.
"Give me the f------ money," he told her, according to the criminal complaint. "I know you have it."
Then he wrapped his fingers around her throat and "choked her while trying to pull the cash out from under her bra," she told police. She began to scream, he tried choking her again, and he eventually left empty-handed.
Wright later violated the terms of his probation in the robbery case and was accused of waving a black handgun near a Minneapolis intersection before ditching it and fleeing on foot, eluding responding officers. When police pulled him over in April, they found he had a warrant connected with that incident and attempted to arrest him.
Three weeks before his death, Wright and an accomplice allegedly shot former classmate Joshua Hodges in the leg and stole his car, according to the second civil lawsuit.
The accomplice’s bullet is said to have broken his fibula, struck an artery and left permanent damage.
Hodges was able to identify Wright because, before the carjacking, he got out of a different vehicle without a mask on – and the two made contact, according to the lawsuit. Wright allegedly masked up and proceeded anyway.
"[Wright] was accidentally killed by a Brooklyn Center police officer on April 11, 2021, approximately three weeks after his crimes against [Hodges]," the civil complaint reads. "After that accidental death, a false narrative began establishing [Wright] as a young person that young people looked up to, when in fact a warrant was in place for his violations of law on bond for a past crime. [He] had previously chosen a life of crime."
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