As a 42-year-old drank at a St. Paul bar, a bartender and a man appeared to be monitoring his movements and communicating with other people, according to charges filed this week. When he walked outside, he was robbed and shot. The victim was initially able to talk to police, but he went into cardiac arrest and is not expected to survive, the criminal complaint said. Now, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office has charged the bartender and a man. Two other people have also been charged, but their cases remain under seal until their arrests. The incident unfolded on Oct. 30, when the 42-year-old went to Born’s Bar on St. Paul’s Rice Street about 3:45 p.m. He talked to investigators at the hospital the next day and said that, when he went outside, a short man he didn’t know but who he’d seen around asked him for a cigarette. The people with the man had their hoods up, which he made note of because it wasn’t cold. He said “the fight was on” then and several people were involved. He reported he was down on the ground and money was coming out of his pockets. He thought he had about $4,500 in cash because he’d planned to buy “a little bike.” Someone yelled, “Pop his (expletive)!” and he was shot and felt a burning in his stomach. Officers responded to the bar regarding the shooting about 5:45 p.m. Oct. 30. The victim was on the ground in front of the bar with a gunshot wound just below his navel. Fire Department medics took him to Regions Hospital and he immediately went into surgery. Police found a cross pendant, and silver and gold necklaces, which were broken, on the ground. There was also an iPhone. Evidence on video, phones The victim told police that the bartender, whom he called Erica, was “overpouring the drinks she made for him,” the complaint said. He paid in cash. The owner of Born’s Bar declined to comment about the case Friday. Items recovered by police at the scene included a wallet, which the victim told police did not belong to him. Police found it had a driver’s license for Edward G. Robinson, 43, of St. Paul. The iPhone found at the scene belonged to Robinson. Edward G. Robinson (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office) Robinson’s phone indicated that Erica Ruth Hampton, a 41-year-old bartender at Born’s who has a son with Robinson, called him about 4 p.m. Bar surveillance video showed Hampton with a phone to her ear while mixing drinks at that time. Video also showed that Robinson and Hampton’s 24-year-old son and a man in a pink sweatshirt arrived at the bar at 4:25 p.m. The victim bought another drink from Hampton at 4:53 p.m. and went onto the patio, where Hampton followed him and apparently texted on her phone, the complaint said. At 5:06 p.m., Robinson received a call from a 44-year-old man and then Robinson contacted a 39-year-old man. At 5:37 p.m., Robinson and the 39-year-old “appeared on camera and posted up on the sidewalk outside Born’s Bar,” the complaint said. Robinson and Hampton’s son and the man in the pink sweatshirt exited a car, which registers to Hampton. The 44-year-old texted Robinson at 5:42 p.m. and said: “He acting like he scared to come out,” and the complaint noted the man was apparently keeping tabs on the victim’s location and movements. Robinson kept watch through the bar windows. The victim left the bar and Robinson soon began to fight him, the complaint said. The 39-year-old, Robinson’s son and the pink sweatshirted man “closed in on the fight,” the complaint said. The 39-year-old swung a handgun at the victim’s head and the man in the pink sweatshirt also held a gun. The 39-year-old put his handgun to the victim’s torso and shot him. Analysis of the casing found at the scene showed it was fired by the same gun used in a shooting in Milwaukee in 2022. The 39-year-old has ties to that area, the complaint said. Bartender said she didn’t tip anyone off On Nov. 1, the victim’s wife contacted investigators and reported he had fluid on his lungs and blood in his stomach. He went into cardiac arrest, but doctors revived him. He was on life support when the charge was filed against Hampton on Friday. Police arrested Hampton, of St. Paul, on Thursday. She said she’d been working at the bar on Oct. 30 and the owner called her back “because something was going on with her son and his father,” the complaint said. She said she rushed back to the bar and watched surveillance footage with the owner. Erica Ruth Hampton (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office) Hampton said an officer asked the owner if he recognized anyone in the surveillance video. “She didn’t respond to the officer’s question because she didn’t have anything to do with it,” the complaint said of her response to police. Hampton said she remembered the victim being at the bar, but not him leaving because she was off work before then. When police told her that records “appeared to show her tipping her son off” as she called him minutes before the victim left the bar, Hampton said she had nothing to do with the incident. She said she hadn’t called anyone and told them about the money the victim had at the bar. Hampton is charged with aiding an offender — accomplice after the fact. Richardson is charged with aiding and abetting first-degree assault and robbery. He has prior convictions for third-degree assault, terroristic threats and federal drug case, the complaint said. An attorney for the pair couldn’t be reached for comment Friday. 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