A second teen has been charged in a gunfight that took place Sunday night about a block from the Minnesota United playoff game at Allianz Field.

Kier Shawn Johnson, 16, was charged Friday with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, according to a juvenile petition filed in Ramsey County District Court.

In an interview with police, he alluded to the recent spike in violence in St. Paul, saying there’s a shoot-or-be-shot atmosphere in the city, court documents say.

Johnson is the second teen implicated in the gunfight, which apparently was at least partially motivated by conflict between rival groups, according to the latest legal filing in the case.

The county attorney’s office charged Eric Kapreese Richards, also 16, with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon earlier this week.

Richards and a 24-year-old man were injured in the exchange, authorities say, and a toddler was almost hit when a bullet passed through a car in the Culver’s parking lot.

TWO HOSPITALIZED

Officers responding to the scene about 7:30 p.m. Sunday found Richards and the 24-year-old in a parking lot behind a laundromat at Pascal Street and University Avenue.

Richards appeared to have a gunshot wound to his back. The other man was shot in his arm and head. Both were taken to a hospital.

In interviews with police, both claimed to know little about what had happened.

However, surveillance video from a nearby business reportedly shows Johnson standing behind a vehicle in the parking lot as Richards and another person rode by on bicycles, the juvenile petition said.

Johnson drew a gun and shot at them repeatedly before running toward University Avenue, authorities say. The vehicle he was standing behind also took off.

That’s when Richards got off his bike, picked up something behind a dumpster and started firing his own gun, his juvenile petition said.

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St. Paul district to wait on reopening schools, citing lack of staff He fired about six times before an unknown person came into the camera’s view, at which point Richards fired two more times as that person ran away, authorities say.

Richards then ditched his bike, threw something over the fence and took off, the petition said.

Johnson was arrested Thursday in St. Paul when officers stopped a car he was riding in and found a loaded black handgun tucked inside his waistband, according to his petition.

‘TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DYING’

Johnson reportedly admitted to police that he fired first, saying Richards was one of his “opps,” meaning a member of a rival group, the petition said.

Johnson added he didn’t know whether Richards was armed at the time but said he decided to fire when he saw that both Richards and the male he was biking with were wearing face masks, the petition said.

”I know what’s going on. Too many people have been dying out there,” Johnson said, according to the petition. “I know everybody has guns. I’m not getting shot. I just got shot like three weeks ago. I’m not getting shot again; that’s why I shot him.”

Surveillance footage from Sept. 25 reportedly captured Johnson holding a gun shortly after gunfire erupted between two groups in downtown St. Paul.

He was seen placing the gun and a sweatshirt on the ground before limping out of the camera’s view, authorities say.