A shooting at a Minneapolis homeless encampment is now a triple homicide, after a third person has died from her injuries, according to the medical examiner’s office. The suspect was shot and injured by St. Paul police officers last Monday. He remained hospitalized as of last week. Earl Bennett is seen in a May 20, 2024, booking photo. (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office) Earl Bennett, 40, was charged last week with attempted murder in a shooting at a Minneapolis sober house about two-and-a-half hours before St. Paul police officers responded to a report of shots fired about 7:45 p.m. in St. Paul. Officers encountered a man, later identified as Bennett, walking in the area of Snelling and University avenues in St. Paul. He was holding a handgun, which police say he wouldn’t drop. Bennett held the gun to his own head and pointed it at officers, according to an assault charge filed against him in Ramsey County, accusing him of pointing a weapon at police. Police in Minneapolis said they shared information with law enforcement across the state about the suspect after the shootings at the homeless encampment and the sober house. St. Paul officers, however, were only aware they were responding to a report of shots fired. “We have no information to indicate any of our officers knew his identity or of his past actions prior to encountering him,” Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman, said last week. A 9 mm handgun that Bennett dropped after he was shot in St. Paul did not hold a magazine; it had a round of ammunition in its chamber, according to a criminal complaint against him. The handgun has been tied to casings fired in the Minneapolis homicide. Woman, 35, ID’d as shooting victim On Oct. 27, last Sunday, Minneapolis officers responded about 2:20 p.m. to a shooting at small homeless encampment along railroad tracks on the 4400 block between Hiawatha and Snelling avenues. They found two men and a woman who’d been shot. The men died at the scene and the woman was hospitalized in critical condition. Samantha Jo Moss, 35, died Saturday at HCMC, according to information released Monday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office. They previously identified the men who were killed as Louis Mitchell Lemons Jr., 32, and Christopher Martell Washington, 38. Related Articles Crime & Public Safety | Musk PAC tells Philadelphia judge the $1 million sweepstakes winners are not chosen by chance Crime & Public Safety | After man killed in stabbing at his St. Paul apartment building, another resident arrested Crime & Public Safety | With 14-year-old Monica Joy Holley’s homicide unsolved in St. Paul for a year, family seeks answers Crime & Public Safety | Motive remains unclear in shooting, abduction near Brainerd, Minn. Crime & Public Safety | Wife of Minnesota missionary slain in Africa has been arrested in his death, church says Last Monday, officers responded to a report of a shooting at a sober living facility in the 3500 block of Columbus Avenue about 5:15 p.m. and found a resident who’d been shot in the neck. Two people identified Bennett, a resident of the home, as the shooter. They said Bennett “showed obvious signs of intoxication when he returned to the housing facility that evening,” according to the criminal complaint. Staff told Bennett he would be subject to a drug test, at which point he became upset in a communal dining room and shot another resident in the neck, the complaint said. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged Bennett last Monday with attempted murder. They are reviewing a case against him for potential charges in the triple homicide at the homeless encampment.