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Nia Black
Age 23 | Gunshot wound
Date of homicide: June 13, 2020
During a large fight at the Lamplighter Cocktail Lounge (160 Larpenteur Avenue West, Saint Paul) several shots were fired. Nia Black, who was trying to leave, was hit by a bullet. She suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
Nia worked as a makeup artist in northeast Minneapolis.
Suspect
James Fields, Age 35.
Fields is in custody on second degree murder charges. His criminal records includes assaults and a burglary. One of those assaults involved Fields shooting a man in the Lamplighter Lounge's parking lot in August of 2014. Same area where Nia Black was murdered.