'Came into her home bearing gifts': Dad arrives at his daughter's birthday party and kills her mother, then dumps the kids with their grandma and flees, police say

A Minnesota antheral allegedly killed his woman during their daughter's day enactment and past drove the miss and her siblings to Michigan earlier helium fled to Canada, wherever helium was yet arrested.

Wesley Koboi, 33, is facing a second-degree murder complaint successful the decease of 29-year-old Shaniya Thompson successful St. Paul. Cops responded astir 4:15 p.m. Friday to an flat analyzable successful the 500 artifact of Broadway Street aft a caller said a pistillate had been shot. They went wrong and recovered Thompson dormant from a gunshot coiled to the head. Officers besides recovered a weapon wrong the apartment.

Investigators judge Thompson was really changeable connected Thursday. According to a probable origin apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, cops spoke with Thompson and Koboi's daughter, who said she was successful Michigan. When they asked her if her ma was OK, the miss replied, "I don't know." She stated her begetter had a weapon and helium kept saying it was an accident. The household had been having a day enactment for 1 of the kids erstwhile Koboi and Thompson started arguing.

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Another kid told detectives that Thompson and Koboi had been arguing earlier the incidental and the fishy pulled retired a "short" firearm and enactment it to the victim's head, according to the complaint. Koboi allegedly ordered the kids retired of the surviving country and to a bedroom. Shortly thereafter, they heard a large "thud."

Koboi past allegedly came to the chamber and said they were leaving. He seemingly drove them much than 8 hours to a relative's location — reportedly his mother's — successful Grand Rapids, Michigan. Cops accidental Koboi past near and went to Port Huron, wherever helium crossed the Sarnia Blue Water Bridge into Canada. He allegedly booked a formation to Mexico, but cops told section NBC affiliate KARE that Koboi was arrested Tuesday successful Toronto.

Thompson's household is devastated, particularly since what was planned arsenic a amusive children's day enactment devolved into an enactment of violence.

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"He came into her location bearing gifts for my young niece's birthday," wrote Thompson's sister Shayna Jason successful a GoFundMe post. "All the portion readying to sprout and termination my sister. While my nieces and nephews were determination they heard gunshots and a scream."

Jason wrote that her sister was a devoted parent to 5 children "whose lives person been everlastingly changed."

"These children witnessed the unthinkable, and present they are near not lone grieving their parent but besides facing trauma that nary kid should ever endure," Jason said. "They volition request counseling, care, and enactment arsenic they effort to heal. With Christmas truthful close, we are heartbroken knowing they whitethorn spell without during what should beryllium a clip of emotion and comfort."