Accused shooter transferred from county

Prosecutors have charged a man with Cloquet connections with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Minneapolis North student-athlete Deshaun Hill Jr. The 15-year-old died Feb. 10 after being shot in the head the previous day along a Minneapolis street.

Hennepin County prosecutors allege 29-year-old Cody Logan Fohrenkam fired the shot that killed Hill after the two may have bumped into each other on a sidewalk.

Over the course of the investigation, numerous witnesses and a surveillance video from the area helped investigators identify Fohrenkam as the suspected shooter, the complaint states. Witnesses at the scene also positively identified Fohrenkam in a photo lineup.

Fohrenkam was already in jail in Carlton County when the second-degree murder charges were filed. He had been arrested by Fond du Lac police on Feb. 15 for possession of marijuana, trespassing and probation violation. According to Carlton County sheriff Kelly Lake, Carlton District Court released him from custody on local misdemeanor charges on Feb. 18, but he was transferred directly to the Hennepin County jail because Minneapolis police had placed a hold on him.

His mother told television station KARE 11 this week that for the last nine months her son has been “homeless, staying with people — sometimes in Minneapolis, sometimes with her on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation,” the station reported.

Fohrenkam’s arrest records show him with a Cloquet address in 2017, and a Minneapolis address in arrests made before and after that. Fohrenkam has past felony convictions for felony drug possession, second-degree arson, robbery, a weapons charge for having machine/short-barreled guns along with various misdemeanor charges including possession of a pistol without a permit.