Charge: Suspect pistol-whipped, fatally shot stranger walking with girlfriend in downtown Minneapolis

A man walking with his girlfriend in downtown Minneapolis’ theater district Saturday night was pistol-whipped and fatally shot after a volatile chance encounter with a stranger in a passing vehicle, according to a murder charge filed Tuesday.

Varnell D. Allen, 23, was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree murder in the shooting of 21-year-old Enzo Herrera-Garcia, of Apple Valley, at the intersection of S. 8th Street and Hennepin Avenue.

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