A guest at a wedding in a Maplewood park pulled out a gun and shot a man who was arguing with the groom, according to charges filed Friday.

Police were sent to Keller Lake Regional Park about 5:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and found a 36-year-old St. Paul man on the ground in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. Good Samaritans had removed their belts and wrapped them on the man’s legs to stop the bleeding. He was taken to Regions Hospital and survived.

The man’s 7-year-old daughter told officers that her dad was talking to the groom, and that it looked like they might be getting into an argument. A third man with long dreadlocks approached, and she thought he was going to split the two men up.

Instead, the girl told police, the third man pulled out a handgun and shot her father, according to a cri

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