A St. Paul man who authorities say shot and killed a Maplewood woman and then shot himself in the head later went live on social media to apologize, according to charges filed Friday.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office charged Joseph Raymond Wiggins, 57, with one count of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death Wednesday of Amy Doverspike, 55, at her home in Maplewood.

The criminal complaint gave the following details:

At around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, police responded to reports of a shooting at an apartment complex at 2565 Ivy Ave. E. in Maplewood. Staff at the building told authorities they heard two gunshots and then, after a pause, a third shot.

When officers arrived they smelled gunpowder and saw smoke in the air and found Doverspike lying in a pool of blood outside an apartment door next to two spent shell casings. She did not have a pulse and had gunshot wounds to her upper right thigh and her left shoulder and back.

Police attempted life saving efforts on scene. She was taken to Regions Hospital where she later was pronounced dead.

According to Maplewood police, authorities were told that Wiggins was inside the apartment and armed. Officers evacuated nearby apartments and issued a shelter-in-place order. Numerous law enforcement agencies responded including the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, which made entry into the apartment and found Wiggins wounded from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

According to the criminal complaint, staff at the apartment building said Wiggins and Doverspike had a child who was in prison for murder and that Wiggins wanted to get back together with her. They said Doverspike did not want to be with him and Wiggins had threatened to end his own life the day before the shooting.

Wiggins’ current wife had called police to say she believed he had shot someone else and himself. She later provided authorities with texts he had sent her asking God to forgive him and saying he was scared and dying.

‘I killed her. I’m dying. I can’t get up,” he texted her, according to the criminal complaint. He also texted her two pictures of his face with the gunshot wound.

The criminal complaint said he also made a live Facebook video after he shot himself: “It appeared Wiggins’ jaw was broken and half his teeth were missing,” the complaint said. “(His) injury made it difficult to understand what he said in the video besides that he was sorry and his injury hurt.”

Wiggins was given first aid and taken to Regions Hospital, where he remained as of Friday in critical condition. He was expected to survive with an anticipated lengthy hospital stay.

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