Tenant’s Murderous Rampage Shocks Community

Police tape with flashing lights in the background. — CHILLING CRIME

A parking garage contract that could have been handled on paper instead ended with three people shot dead in a leasing office.

Story Snapshot

A 30-year-old tenant is charged with executing three apartment workers after a parking dispute.
Charges say he was denied canceling his garage lease, then walked into the office and opened fire.
Surveillance video and a reported confession to his roommate form key pieces of the case.
The victims were ordinary staffers doing their jobs when a routine call turned into a killing ground.

Triple killing in a St. Paul leasing office

Police say the calm of a Monday afternoon at Davern Park Apartments in St. Paul shattered around 4 p.m. when callers reported gunfire and bodies inside the leasing office. Officers arrived to find three employees fatally shot at close range.

The Ramsey County medical examiner identified the victims as 25-year-old Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 56-year-old Dena Silcox, and 43-year-old Adam Wilwerding. Each was at work in a space meant for rent checks and repair requests, not for dodging bullets.

Disgruntled tenant ‘executed’ 3 leasing office workers over parking garage dispute, police say https://t.co/CdYT7wDnLr

— Live5News (@Live5News) July 22, 2026

Prosecutors charged tenant Tsegaab Ademassu Binessu, 30, with three counts of second-degree murder with intent, not premeditated, under Minnesota law. Court summaries say he lived at the complex and had regular contact with its staff.

He now sits in jail, accused of turning that familiarity into a hunting map. This is not a case of a random shooter wandering in off the street; the complaint paints it as a targeted attack born out of anger over a contract.

From parking contract dispute to alleged execution

According to the charging documents, the chain began with a phone call. Binessu had recently renewed his $65-a-month garage parking lease but later sold his car and decided he wanted out.

He told staff he planned to join the military and did not need the space, but the leasing office said the contract could not be changed after renewal. The complaint says that after being told no, he said he would go to the office, then headed there and “executed” the three workers.

Surveillance video described in the charges reportedly shows a chilling, step-by-step killing. The footage shows Binessu speaking with Wilwerding in the leasing office before pulling a gun and shooting him multiple times. The video then shows him turning the weapon on Silcox and firing again and again.

He walks out of view down a hallway as more shots ring out, and Fuentes Zambrano is later found in a back room after trying to escape, with a fatal wound to her head. Investigators say they collected 21 shell casings at the scene, suggesting a deliberate and sustained attack rather than a single burst of panic.

Arrest, alleged confession, and the legal stakes

After the shooting, law enforcement began tracking a suspect who had left in one of the victim’s vehicles. Police say they arrested Binessu overnight in Virginia, Minnesota, roughly 200 miles from St. Paul, while he was driving that car.

A man then called police to report that his roommate, identified as Binessu, had confessed to killing the three apartment workers. The criminal complaint says this roommate’s report and later police interview helped tie the alleged shooter to the office and to the gunfire seen on video.

During his interview with investigators, Binessu reportedly repeated that he had sold his car and wanted to end the garage lease but was told it could not be changed. He admitted going to the leasing office after the call but “did not explain what happened there,” according to police.

That silence, laid next to the video and the roommate’s report, now sits at the heart of the charges. If prosecutors prove the sequence, he faces up to 40 years on each second-degree murder count. Online, some voices already argue the attack looks more like first-degree, planned murder, given the walk-in, the volume of shots, and the escape.

When housing friction turns deadly instead of civil

Most people dealing with a lease problem end up annoyed, not armed. Minnesota law lays out formal paths for ending a lease, especially when a tenant faces violence or serious danger. Landlords, in turn, cannot simply throw tenants out without court orders and the county sheriff enforcing them.

Those rules create real friction when people feel locked into contracts they no longer want. The grown-up way to handle that is paperwork, court, or mediation, not revenge shootings over a monthly bill.

Prosecutors have charged a Saint Paul man with three counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three people inside the leasing office of a Highland Park apartment complex, a killing they say followed a dispute over a parking-garage contract.

Tsegaab Ademassu… pic.twitter.com/uc4sj4tHRc

— MN CRIME (@MN_CRIME) July 21, 2026

This case illustrates how fast a single early headline can lock in a public story: “executed three over parking contract dispute.” That frame matches what the complaint reportedly says, but key evidence like full video, audio from 911 calls, and forensic reports has not yet played out in open court.

The basic facts are clear and horrifying: three workers are dead, a tenant is charged, and a petty contract argument allegedly lit the fuse. For anyone who believes in law, order, and personal responsibility, it is a sharp reminder that contracts exist to avoid chaos, not excuse it.