Taral Junior Holmes tried to bring his gun into Born’s Bar in St. Paul earlier this month. When a bouncer found it during a pat-search, he was denied entry.
Afterward, Holmes was outside the Rice Street bar when he threw a punch that landed on another man’s head and neck, according to a criminal complaint. Then he started shooting at the man from close range before taking off.
The gunfire missed the target during the Jan. 14 incident, according to criminal charges.
That’s the account in the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office criminal complaint filed Thursday evening. The 35-year-old St. Paul man is charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Holmes has four felonies on his record, including a first-degree drug charge, second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm by an ineligible person.
When he was arrested in the recent shooting, police found a 50-round capacity drum magazine in his backpack, and 9 mm handgun in a vehicle, according to the charges.
The vehicle belonged to his girlfriend, and she reportedly said the firearm didn’t belong to her.
Holmes was scheduled to make his first court appearance on the allegations Friday morning. No attorney was listed for him in court records.