Minneapolis PD says two individuals have been charged in the death of a pregnant woman after she was found severely burnt within an RV near the 3500 block of Hennepin Avenue on Nov. 8.
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office charged Jade Monet Rissell, 27, and Shannon Michael Benson, 42, with second-degree murder, and murder of an unborn child. Although firefighters were able to extinguish the fully engulfed RV, police say the victim's body inside was severely burned.
Authorities say the victim, whose identity remains unknown pending a release by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, was seven months pregnant. The unborn baby also did not survive.
Minneapolis PD says these are the city's 85th and 86th homicides of 2021.