UPDATE: Family of slain 26-year-old pleads for peace.

One man was killed and two other people were injured Tuesday night after an eruption of gunfire in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul.

Officers in the neighborhood on unrelated calls reported hearing about 10 gunshots shortly after 9:30 p.m. near Edmund Avenue and Grotto Street North, according to St. Paul police Cmdr. Jim Falkowski.

The officers found victims outdoors almost immediately, one of them already dead, Falkowski said. Two other men who’d been shot in the same incident were rushed to Regions Hospital.

On Wednesday, relatives identified the deceased as Kin Reynolds Jr., 26.

No one had been arrested as of Wednesday morning and a police spokesman said he had no information about a description of a suspect or suspects.

Kim Thatcher said she was in her back yard about a block east of the intersection when she heard the gunfire.

“I heard eight to 10 shots, rapid, straight,” she said, guessing that the shots came from a single gun. Soon afterward, she said, someone ran east down her alley “with flames on their feet.” She couldn’t tell if the person was involved in the violence or simply running from the sound of gunfire.

Neighbors closer to the gunfire told Thatcher that one of the shooting victims was still on his feet when police arrived. They said he stood with his hands up, said “Don’t shoot” and lifted his shirt to show officers he had been shot.

About 11:30 p.m., a group of distraught women and men arrived trying to find out if a family member was in the hospital or lying in the street. They left after a few minutes.

Sgt. Mike Ernster said at a 2:30 a.m. press conference that the two taken to the hospital were expected to survive. Ernster said they had not yet been interviewed by investigators and police still were unable to say much about the nature of the shooting or who was responsible.

“Investigators do not believe this is a random incident,” he said.

The Ramsey County medical examiner’s office will release the name of the man who was killed after positive identification is complete, Ernster said.

Tim Thatcher stood watching investigators on the scene before midnight and said the neighborhood was a good place to live by day but he was growing discouraged by too-frequent gunplay at night, particularly after bar closing. He said he hears gunfire more than once a week.

In May, a 61-year-old man was charged with attempted murder after police say he was kicked out of Willard’s Liquors, about a block from Tuesday night’s shooting, and then returned and shot another man in the chest.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the department’s Homicide Unit at 651-266-5650.

Mara Gottfried contributed to this report.