(KNSI) — Police are identifying the woman killed in the parking lot of her workplace Monday morning.
St. Cloud police say the victim is 28-year-old Nicole Michelle Hammond of St. Cloud.
Police responded to a shooting at the business on the 400 block of Lincoln Avenue Northeast at 6:59. A criminal complaint against the suspect, 36-year-old Michael Jordan Carpenter, says she was shot in the neck and died at the scene. He was reportedly upset over Hammond rejecting his advances.
Carpenter has been charged with second-degree murder.
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