Authorities have made two arrests in the fatal Saturday shooting of a 19-year-old Da’Seion Pugh, who graduated from Tartan High School last year and had since been helping out his family and taking college courses.

St. Paul police said little Sunday about developments in the case, except to say it has an adult male and a juvenile male in custody, and that the investigation is ongoing.

Pugh was killed about 3:55 p.m. Saturday outside a multi-family residence at Aurora Avenue and Marion Street. He lived in St. Paul but not in the Summit-University area where he was killed.

Police said they were called to the 200 block of Aurora Avenue on a report of shots fired and found the victim. Paramedics later pronounced the man dead.

The shooting left Pugh’s family and friends wailing nearby and asking, “Why?”

“We just want justice for my son, period,” Char Funches, Pugh’s stepmother, said Saturday. “It’s senseless. He wasn’t a troublemaking child. Not to say that people deserve it, but he wasn’t out here asking for this. He didn’t deserve it.” Related Articles Minneapolis man pleads guilty to torching University Avenue business during May unrest

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The location where Pugh was killed is the same as where Tyrese Santell Borney, 36, was fatally shot April 15, which was also a Saturday, about 2:45 p.m. Police do not believe the shootings are related, Ernster said. No one has been charged in Borney’s death.

Pugh was remembered Saturday as the oldest of eight children. He played basketball and football at Tartan and was a “laid-back, go-with-the-flow guy,” Funches said. He took photos and drew, and he loved music and sports.

Brittany Kimbrough, a classmate of Pugh’s from Tartan, said she had to come to the scene of the shooting — near the McDonald’s at University Avenue and Marion Street, and down the street from the state Capitol — because she could not believe he was gone.

“He’s been on the right path,” the 19-year-old said of her friend. “… For him to be shot and killed out here, it doesn’t make sense to me.”

Kimbrough said Pugh was lovable and sweet, the kind of young man who stuck up for females.

“Da’Seion was the one who wanted to help everybody,” Kimbrough added.

His death was the 13th homicide in St. Paul this year. Police ask anyone with information to call them at 651-266-5650.