Minnesota court documents give further insight into the criminal history of the man who was mistakenly released from Marion County Jail last week.
Preliminary information suggests the clerk believed she was correcting duplicate bookings for the inmate and removed two holds in his file. The next day, a Minnesota clerk removed the final hold and the mistake was not caught by clerks the following day.Two clerks have been terminated from the agency, according to the sheriff's office.
According to court documents, Mason of St. Paul, Minnesota has had numerous run-ins with law enforcement in the North Star State. According to court records, Mason was attending a funeral of a known gang member when he got into an altercation with another man, later identified as 29-year-old Dontevius Catchings.
After Catchings walked away, Mason drew a gun and shot Catchings multiple times in the back, according to court documents.
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