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Grand Rapids shooting victim dies

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Dec 30, 2012 at 12:23 pm

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (KNSI) A Grand Rapids woman has died a week after police say she was shot by a man in her home.

Fifty nine year-old Rosemary Oberg-Johnson died at a hospital on Saturday. Prosecutors had previously charged William Levi Payne of Bovey with eight felony counts in connection with the Dec. 22 shooting of Oberg-Johnson and her son, Paul Russell Johnson.

Paul Johnson remains in critical condition at a hospital in Duluth.

A woman who had been granted an order for protection against Payne told police she was visiting the shooting victims when she heard Payne yell and saw him fire a gun.

Payne is in custody at the Itasca County Jail. Prosecutors say they'll amend the complaint against him.