During the 2025 St. Paul Art Crawl, the Lowertown Lofts Artists Cooperative is honoring the memory of an artist whose life was tragically and violently cut short days before last year's event.

Carrie Marie Kwok was shot and killed during the evening of Sept. 25, 2024, while painting a mural outside her home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Police said it appeared to be a random attack. The suspect, 29-year-old Seantrell Murdock, was killed just hours later during a confrontation with St. Paul officers in Belle Plaine, Minnesota.

In the year since, her family has had to pick up the pieces as they struggled with the question, why?

Julie Shobe says her sister was strong-willed, independent and loved being around her children and grandchildren.

Shobe said in a statement, "I miss her every

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