Officials ID man found fatally shot in car that smashed into tree in St. Paul

Officials on Monday identified the driver who was found fatally shot inside a vehicle that crashed into a tree in a St. Paul neighborhood. Officers responded to several 911 calls just after 7 a.m. Friday to the 900 block of Mounds Boulevard, police said. The callers reported two vehicles crashed into one another, before one of the cars crashed into a tree, Police Sgt. Steve Lentsch said at a news briefing. Witnesses also told police that they heard gunshots in the area before the crash. Officers and medics located a man with gunshot wounds in the driver’s seat of the car that crashed into the tree, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Advertisement The victim was identified Monday by the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office as Han D. Wah, 20, of Woodbury. There were no other occupants in the vehicle, and police said the wound was not self-inflicted. Police have announced no arrests as of Tuesday morning. Expanded image view A driver was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday morning in St. Paul's Dayton's Bluff neighborhood. Police are still investigating whether the man was shot before, during or after the crash, Lentsch said. “We just don’t know at this time,” he said. “That’s obviously going to be a focus of the investigation as to when exactly that victim was shot.”