When St. Paul police launched a nonfatal shooting unit in 2024, the improvements came almost immediately: The department’s clearance rate for solving nonfatal shootings nearly doubled in just one year.
In an effort to replicate that success across Minnesota, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi and other local officials on May 7 pushed for the state Legislature to pass a bill that would put $1 million toward a statewide grant program aimed to improve investigations of nonfatal gun violence.
Created in January 2024, St. Paul’s nonfatal unit investigates shootings with the same resources and intensity as its homicide unit. Nonfatal shootings in St. Paul dropped 62% from 2024 to 2025.
