Charges Filed in Fatal Shooting of 17-Year-Old Boy in Chanhassen

(Chaska, MN) — A St. Paul woman makes her first court appearance Tuesday on second-degree murder charges in the shooting of her 17-year-old boyfriend in Chanhassen. Carver County prosecutors allege that 18-year-old Vanessa Sanchez Lopez shot Manuel Bernal Jurado of South St. Paul at close range inside a vehicle. Eden Prairie police chased their vehicle to a hospital in Edina where Jurado was found with a gunshot wound to the head. The complaint says Lopez and Jurado saw a movie with friends and had been arguing all night before the shooting.