Seantrell T. Murdock took a roundabout path to St. Paul the day police say he shot a Lowertown woman as she kneeled painting a mural.

The 29-year-old finished work in Plymouth and drove about 30 miles south to Lakeville, closer to his home in Scott County. He looped around to Burnsville and Eagan, before getting on Interstate 35E north and making his way to Shepard Road along the Mississippi River in St. Paul and then to Lowertown.

Surveillance video of the Sept. 25, 2024, killing of Carrie Shobe Kwok, 66, showed no confrontation or attempted robbery, police say. Other people were in the area, and it was still light out.

Police closed the case in December. They said they’d followed the evidence and it all pointed to Murdock, with no one else being involved.

Why Murdock did it and why h

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