A man charged Wednesday with shooting a suspected car thief who fled into his St. Paul yard was involved in another shooting in the city six years ago.

Vincent Trotter and a co-worker were robbed at gunpoint in 2013. Trotter, 36, shot and wounded one of the suspects in the leg, according to police reports.

Trotter told police he was afraid they were going to be shot as the suspects were backing away.

He said he saw one of the men point the gun toward them, leading him to fire in the suspects’ direction, a report said. The robbery suspect fired a round in Trotter’s direction at the same time.

Two men were charged and convicted of robbery in that case. Trotter had a Ramsey County gun carry permit, according to a police report, and he was not arrested.

Then, on Tuesday morning, Trotter was involved in another shooting, this time in his yard in the Payne-Phalen area. The Ramsey County attorney’s office charged Trotter with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon on Wednesday.

Trotter has a permit to carry a gun, a relative said Tuesday.

HOMEOWNER’S ARREST CAME AFTER TUESDAY’S SHOOTING

On Tuesday at about 10 a.m., after a stolen car sped away from police, it crashed at Payne and Jenks avenues. Police were setting up a perimeter to search for those who fled from the car when they heard several gunshots.

Police discovered a man with gunshot injuries in a yard on Cook Avenue, off Payne Avenue — about two blocks from the crash. He was identified as the driver of the stolen car, Jalik Combs.

Trotter, who had a handgun, identified himself as the homeowner and handed his gun over to police.

Police brought Trotter in for questioning and he was booked into the Ramsey County jail early Tuesday evening.

Combs was treated at Regions Hospital before being booked into the Ramsey County jail Tuesday on suspicion of auto theft. He was shot in the buttocks, forearm and legs, according to his mother, Artesa Wheatley, who lives on the same block and said she doesn’t know Trotter.

A sign in the front window of Trotter’s residence says, “Warning” and “No trespassing.” It goes on state, “Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again!”

Wheatley said she talked to her son by phone and he told her the man asked him, “Did you see the sign that said ‘No trespassing’?” and told him to get away from his house.

Combs told Trotter he was leaving and started to, but he was shot, according to Wheatley.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office is reviewing a case against Trotter on Wednesday for potential charges.

A nephew said Tuesday that Trotter is a good man who works three jobs. He said he believes his uncle would have been protecting his wife and their baby.

In a separate case this year involving a gun owner with a permit to carry, a man involved in an earlier St. Paul shooting was charged in a Minneapolis shooting.

Hennepin County prosecutors charged Kenneth Walter Lilly, 31, in February with attempted murder and accused the St. Paul man of shooting and wounding a school bus driver after a minor accident on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Thursday.

In 2015, Lilly, who had a permit-to-carry, fatally shot a 16-year-old trying to rob him on a Mississippi River bluff in St. Paul. The Ramsey County attorney’s office found Lilly’s use of deadly force against Lavauntai Broadbent legally justified.

2013 SHOOTING FOLLOWED ARMED ROBBERY

On Nov. 17, 2013, at about 3:15 a.m., Trotter and another man who worked as bouncers at Club New York went to cash their paychecks at The UnBank at University Avenue and Lexington Parkway.

Trotter told an investigator he had a full-time job during the week and worked at the club, which used to be in downtown Minneapolis, on weekends.

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Trotter was about to get into his co-worker’s car on Aurora Avenue when he heard a gun being racked and someone say, “Just don’t move,” according to a police report. Trotter told his colleague “to be still” because he feared “if they make any movement at all they will be killed,” another report said.

There were two men outside the car and one knocked on the driver’s side window with a gun and said, “Give me everything you have.” Trotter’s friend handed over the $160 from his paycheck.

Trotter covertly moved his wallet out of his pocket and into the space between the car’s seat and door jamb. When the gunman came to him, Trotter told him he didn’t have any money. He said the suspect searched his pockets and he feared the gunman did not believe him.

Trotter said he took his gun from under the passenger seat and held it inside the car so the suspects couldn’t see it.

He said the suspects were keeping an eye on him as they crossed Aurora Avenue and he still thought they were going to come back and shoot him.

“Trotter began to cry, and was visibly shaking, as he said that he was really scared and thought he and his friend were going to die,” the investigator wrote. “He said that he only picked up the gun to protect himself and (his co-worker) if the robbers headed back in their direction.”

The suspects crossed the alley and into the Dairy Queen parking lot, periodically turning around and looking at him. Trotter said he thought the gunman suspected he was armed and, when the suspect pointed the gun at them, “he knew they were going to be shot at,” the report continued.

That’s when Trotter said he fired five rounds, with the second one striking the suspect, later identified as Marcel Lee Galloway, a 21-year-old walking next to the gunman.

Marquise Dayshawn Parker, who was 18 then, fired in Trotter’s direction at the same time, according to the criminal complaint against him.

Trotter called 911. Police searched the area and found Galloway, who appeared to have hopped over a fence. He had a gunshot wound to the leg.

The Ramsey County attorney’s office charged Galloway and Parker, and they both pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting first-degree robbery.