Gov. Tim Walz says son Gus witnessed shooting at St. Paul rec center during VP debate

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Gov. Tim Walz says son Gus witnessed ********* at St. Paul rec center during VP debate

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz during the Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday night revealed that his teenage son Gus had witnessed a ********* at a community center in St. Paul last year.

“Look I got a 17-year-old and he witnessed a ********* at a community center playing volleyball. Those things don’t leave you,” Tim Walz said. 

He was referencing a ********* that happened in January of 2023 at the Jimmy Lee Rec Center, when an employee shot a 16-year-old boy in the head. Gus Walz was one of roughly 100 young people who were at the community center when the ********* happened, according to a

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post by his coach, David Albornoz.

Albornoz wrote the post soon after Gus Walz’s viral moment of cheering on his father at the Democratic National Convention. In it, Albornoz writes about the teenager’s contagious love for volleyball, and how he was “keeping everyone safe and calm, looking after the kids in the gym with us as I rushed out,” after the *********.

The rec center employee — Exavir Dwayne Binford Jr. — pleaded guilty to first degree ******** for the ********* of the 16-year-old and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 

The ********* complaint states that the rec center was in lockdown due to a ****** between a number of ******. A girl who was inside the building was allowed to let her cousin inside, which upset Binford, because “another employee undermined his authority,” documents say. He repeatedly called the girl a “b****,” and the 16-year-old victim got involved. 

Binford then showed the two he was carrying a ****, and the 16-year-old and the girl started punching him. Binford then backed up, pulled out the ****, and shot the 16-year-old in the head, charges said. 

Tim Walz mentioned the rec center ********* during a line of questioning about **** ********* in the ******* States. 

“I didn’t know that your 17-year-old witnessed the *********. And I’m sorry about that. And I hope, *******, have mercy. It is awful,” Sen. JD Vance said to Tim Walz afterward.

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