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Update Fri.  a.m.  Oct 4 2013

 

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP Oct 4, 2013) – Bond was set Thursday for former Valley City State student 21-year-old Cedric Chappell Jr., who is accused of killing one man and injuring another in a shooting last weekend in Minneapolis

Chappell, did not waive his extradition back to Minnesota following the bond hearing in Valley City.

Barnes County State’s Attorney Lee Grossman says Judge John Paulson set Chappell’s bail at one million dollars.

A Valley City State University spokesman says the arrest of Chappell, one of the North Dakota school’s football players in a Minnesota murder case was a surprise.

Valley City State University spokesman Greg Vanney tells the Grand Forks Herald that no “red flags” were raised during Chappell’s time at the school. Vanney also says Chappell did not cause any problems when he previously was at the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton.

Chappell attended the college in Wahpeton for about two years before transferring to Valley City.

Chappell was arrested Tuesday on campus at Valley City State University. He is charged in Hennepin County, Minn., with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder for fatally shooting a man and wounding another outside a Minneapolis bar over the weekend.

 

Previously…

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – A Valley City State University football player who was a standout athlete at a Minnesota high school has been charged with fatally shooting a man outside a Minneapolis bar over the weekend.

Cedric Chappell Jr. was arrested Tuesday at Valley City State University. He is charged in Hennepin County, Minn. with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. He’s being held in the Barnes County jail.

The Minneapolis Police Department contacted the Valley City Police Department last weekend to seek assistance in investigating the case. Minneapolis police got an arrest warrant for one count of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Twenty-two-year-old Willie Smith, of St. Paul, was fatally shot outside the Blue Nile restaurant and bar about 2 a.m. Saturday. Another man was shot in the leg.

A criminal complaint says a fight started inside the bar, spilled out into the parking lot and two groups started shooting at each other.

Chappell was a standout athlete at Washburn High School in Minneapolis.

The VCPD, was assisted by the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office and the Stutsman County Narcotics Task Force, who able to locate Chappell, on the VCSU campus where he was taken into custody without incident.

Police had notified university officials of the situation before arresting Chappell

VCSU spokesman Greg Vanney, says Chappell has been suspended from the university, as a student due to safety concerns for other students, adding that VCSU officials are cooperating with police in the investigation.

He says, the mood on campus Wednesday wasn’t as much fearful as it was surprised.

Student affairs staff reported that students in the residence halls were faring well,

Forum News Service reported, that when Chappell was 17, he was charged with theft of a motor vehicle as a gross misdemeanor in January 2010 and again with felony motor vehicle theft and receiving stolen property in March of the same year, Forum News Service reported.

He pleaded guilty to the gross misdemeanor vehicle theft charge and the receiving stolen property charge, also a gross misdemeanor, according to court records. He was sentenced to a year of supervised probation. The vehicle theft charge was dismissed.

Anyone with information on the case should call the Valley City Police Department at 701-845-3110.