On Friday, JuVaughn Turner’s mother wanted pictures of the teen to speak for her family. In the first photo, which she submitted to the court, Turner is a typical 16-year-old who liked to hang out with friends, play video games and go to St. Paul’s Jimmy Lee Recreation Center. The second photo was of Turner in the hospital after Jan. 18, 2023, the day he was shot and critically wounded outside .
The city of St. Paul should have been protecting young people at its rec centers, “rather than having an employee who was trying to kill them,” an attorney said of a lawsuit he filed for a 16-year-old shot in the head outside the Jimmy Lee Recreation Center last year. The federal lawsuit names the city and Exavir Dwayne Binford Jr., a Parks and Recreation employee who pleaded guilty in the .