Charges have been dismissed against a St. Paul woman who was accused of taking part in a July fight at a North End park that led to gunfire and a 15-year-old girl being shot in the foot.

Kalosha Malinda Shavette Minor, 30, had faced aiding and abetting second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person prohibited because of a conviction for a crime of violence.

Court records show Minor’s case was dismissed last week by the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, which cited “the interests of justice.”

“After further and careful review of the evidence, it became clear that a prosecution could not be sustained,” Dennis Gerhardstein, the attorney’s office spokesman, said in a Monday statement.

A case against Minor’s boyfriend, Arlanders Marshall, 24, remains pending in court. He faces the same charges that Minor did, and a jury trial is scheduled for October.

According to the criminal complaints:

Officers responded to Woodbridge Street near Front Avenue on a report of a shooting about 11 a.m. July 13 and found the injured teen.

Her mother told police that Minor recently went to court for a robbery charge and saw from police reports that she’d talked to police; the mother is also charged in the case. She said Minor was upset and gave pepper spray to some girls, who used it on the woman’s children the night before. Minor and the woman “had words” on Snapchat after that.

She told police that she and her 15-year-old daughter and other family members were at Roy Wilkins Park, formerly known as Lewis Park. When they were by their vehicle, a car pulled up and Marshall, Minor and two other women got out. They yelled about the previous robbery.

She said Minor pulled her from a vehicle and punched her with a hard-covered lighter. Minor then pepper-sprayed her and her daughter, she told police.

She said she saw Minor hand a gun to Marshall, who shot at them multiple times. The teen then yelled she’d been shot. Minor’s group drove away.

Officers found 14 shell casings at the scene and the teen’s family vehicle had four bullet holes in the hood.

Arlanders Marshall (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

Police carried out a search warrant at Marshall’s Mounds View apartment on July 16 and arrested him and Minor. Officers found ammunition with the same headstamp as the spent casings collected at the scene; they did not locate a gun.

Minor told an investigator that the woman’s children had been arguing with her little sisters on Snapchat, and the woman threatened her children on social media. She said there was a mutual fight at the park, but said it was the teen’s mother who fired a gun. She said she ran and didn’t know what happened after that.

Cellphone data from a phone connected to Marshall placed the phone in the area at the time of the shooting.

Marshall told an investigator he didn’t have a gun and hadn’t been involved in anything. He denied knowing what was going on with Minor and the people she was beefing with. He said he didn’t have a record besides a DUI. “When the investigator recited his charges from Illinois, Marshall said he’s been doing better since leaving Chicago,” the complaint says.

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