A January trial was set today for a man accused of shooting two people in the Central Hillside in November.
Nicholas Franz Pettit, 25, no permanent address, is charged in St. Louis County District Court with two counts of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting that wounded two people on Nov. 26. He is also charged with two counts of second-degree assault.
His trial is scheduled for Jan. 27.
Petit is being held in the St. Louis County Jail on $150,000 bail.
Duluth police received a report of the sound of shots in the vicinity of the 100 block of East Eighth Street at 2:37 a.m. on Nov. 26. Shortly afterward, one victim called from the location reporting that he had been shot. Several minutes later, St. Mary's Medical Center reported that a second shooting victim had arrived there.
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According to the criminal complaint:
Benjamin Junior Conway, 25, was treated for a gunshot wound, with the entrance wound in the area of his neck and the exit wound on the left side of his back just below the shoulder. Louis Edward Mark St. Clair, 22, suffered one chest and one leg wound. He was hospitalized for about two days.
According to the complaint, Pettit and three others came to Duluth from Virginia, Minn., to buy marijuana. Pettit "made a statement to the effect that someone tried to rip him off and they got hurt.''
