Prosecutors have decided not to charge a man in a deadly stabbing in St. Paul, saying Wednesday they couldn’t prove he wasn’t acting in self-defense. Officers responded just after 5:20 p.m. Friday on a report of a stabbing in a gas station parking lot in the Lowertown neighborhood. Derameo Q. Johnson, 35, of St. Paul, died at the hospital soon after. Preliminary investigation indicated Johnson and the suspect got into an altercation inside the gas station in the 200 block of East Seventh Street before the stabbing, police said previously. The suspect remained at the scene and police took him into custody. He was booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree manslaughter and released Saturday after consultation with the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office. Police forwarded their investigation to the county attorney’s office for review for potential charges. Prosecutors “cannot prove that that (the suspect) was not acting in self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt based on the evidence as presented by law enforcement,” Dennis Gerhardstein, county attorney’s spokesman, said in a Wednesday statement. Related Articles Crime & Public Safety | First Feeding Our Future defendant sentenced gets 12 years Crime & Public Safety | Woodbury man sentenced to prison for embezzling $145K from MSP Chick-fil-A Crime & Public Safety | St. Paul postal worker shot boss five times, critically wounding the Eagan man, charges say Crime & Public Safety | ‘This violence must stop’: North End shooting is St. Paul’s third homicide in four days Crime & Public Safety | Defense attorneys ask to toss Iron Range Hells Angels charges after attorney-client breach