Surveillance Video Captures Brutal Triple Kill

Blood stains on a surface with police caution tape in the background — CHILLING CRIME

A parking garage argument in St. Paul ended with three apartment employees shot dead inside their own leasing office.

Story Snapshot

Tsegaab Binessu, 30, faces three counts of second-degree murder in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
Charges allege he was told he could not cancel his parking garage lease, then went to the leasing office and opened fire.
Victims Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, Dena Silcox, and Adam Wilwerding worked at the Davern Park Apartments.
Court documents allege surveillance video captured the shooting and that Binessu later confessed to his roommate.
Deputies arrested him overnight in Virginia, Minnesota, hours after the killings.

What Charging Documents Say Happened

Officers rushed to the Davern Park Apartments on St. Paul Avenue Monday afternoon after reports of gunfire inside the leasing office. Court documents say Binessu had just been refused a request to cancel his recently renewed parking garage contract. According to the charges, he told someone he would go to the leasing office, then allegedly began shooting employees inside the building.

Disgruntled tenant ‘executed’ 3 leasing office workers over parking garage dispute, police say https://t.co/CdYT7wDnLr

— Live5News (@Live5News) July 22, 2026

Prosecutors describe the killings in blunt terms. Court documents allege that Binessu “executed” the three victims, according to reporting on the case. That word choice matters. It signals prosecutors believe the shootings were deliberate acts, not a struggle or accident, and it sets the tone for how a jury may eventually be asked to view the evidence.

Victims, Charges, and the Case Against Him

The three people killed were identified as Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, Dena Silcox, and Adam Wilwerding, all employees at the apartment complex. Binessu faces three counts of second-degree murder, one for each victim, filed in Ramsey County.

Court records list the charges as intentional but not premeditated murder, a distinction that will likely shape any courtroom argument over his state of mind that afternoon.

Investigators say surveillance cameras inside the leasing office recorded the shooting itself, giving prosecutors a visual record of what happened rather than relying only on witness accounts.

A criminal complaint filed this week also alleges Binessu confessed to killing the two women and the man to his roommate after the fact. If accurate, that admission would add another layer to an already direct chain of evidence linking him to the killings.

How Police Tracked Him Down

Binessu did not stay near the scene. St. Louis County deputies took him into custody overnight in Virginia, Minnesota, roughly 190 miles north of St. Paul. He was booked into the Ramsey County Jail on suspicion of murder and held on probable cause while prosecutors finalized charges.

The distance between the shooting scene and his arrest location raises obvious questions about flight, though charging documents have not detailed his movements in between.

Why a Parking Dispute Turned Deadly

Minnesota law gives tenants narrow, legally defined paths to break a lease early, mostly tied to safety concerns like domestic violence or imminent threats. Landlords, in turn, cannot remove tenants without a court order and a sheriff’s writ; they cannot simply lock someone out over a contract disagreement.

That legal rigidity cuts both ways. It protects tenants from arbitrary eviction, but it also means a resident convinced he deserves an exception can hit a wall of “no” from office staff who have no authority to grant one.

None of that legal backdrop explains why a disagreement over a parking contract allegedly ended in three deaths. It does explain why housing disputes, usually resolved through complaints or small-claims court, occasionally boil into something far worse.

Common sense says a denied lease cancellation is an inconvenience, not a justification for violence. The charges against Binessu treat it as exactly that gap between frustration and criminal intent.

What Comes Next in Court

Second-degree murder charges without premeditation carry serious prison time in Minnesota, but they leave room for legal argument over intent and planning. Online commentary has already questioned whether the alleged sequence, being refused a cancellation and then walking to the office, suggests more planning than the current charges reflect.

That debate belongs in a courtroom, not a headline, and Ramsey County prosecutors will need the full complaint, the video, and forensic evidence to make their case.

BS BRIEF: Authorities have charged 30-year-old Tsegaab Binessu with three counts of second-degree murder after three employees at a St. Paul apartment complex were fatally shot during what investigators say began as a dispute over a $65-per-month parking garage contract. Charging…

— Common Sense with Chad Law (@chadparkerlaw) July 22, 2026

For now, the established facts are grim and largely uncontested: three apartment workers are dead, a tenant faces murder charges in their killings, and a routine parking contract sits at the center of the alleged motive. The rest, the video, the confession, the exact legal theory, will play out as the case moves through Ramsey County court.