St. Olaf football player Matthew Lee was fatally shot inside a South St. Paul home early Friday after another man tried to rob the shooter, charges filed Tuesday say.

Terrell Anthony Ranzy, 19, of St. Paul, fired several shots when Keith Woodson Cox, 20, pulled out a gun, pointed it at Ranzy and said “I ain’t going to lie, I need you to give me all that (expletive),” referring to Ranzy’s gun, charges say.

Lee, a junior linebacker at the private liberal arts college in Northfield, was hit twice by the gunfire and died at the scene. Woodson Cox had gunshot wounds to his arms and torso and was rushed to the hospital.

A witness told police that Lee was an “innocent bystander,” according to a criminal complaint in Dakota County District Court charging Ranzy with second-degree unintentional m

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