Authorities identify woman who was shot and killed Wednesday in St. Paul's Lowertown neighborhood

It was still on Friday morning along the alleyway that connected Wall and Waucota streets in St. Paul’s Lowertown neighborhood.

Perhaps as still as it was Wednesday before gunshots rang out.

Police identified the woman who was shot and killed in a horrifying and confounding homicide as 66-year-old Carrie Shobe Kwok.

At the of the shooting, she was stooped down on her knees, paint brush in hand, and sprucing up a mural that takes up a small no-parking zone in front of a loading dock for a structure known by everyone as the 262 Building.

The blue, gray, and yellow designs on the pavement are now surrounded by crime scene tape.

But it’s also brightened up with a few bunches of flowers, red and purple plastic tealights, and a couple of sealed envelopes, all left by people in remembrance.

“I didn’t know her at all,” said Mary Matriace, who lives down the street. “But she’s still part of my community.
What can you do except maybe offer a little something, you know.  And a prayer.”

Mohabad Abis is in town visiting his sister, who also lives near the scene, and he remembers his phone blowing up with information about the shooting.

He later heard that the suspect was shot and killed by St. Paul police at a home in Belle Plaine.

“He just shot and killed her over nothing, but now they got him and he’s gone,” said Abis. “Karma is something else.”

The main door on the loading dock is marked with a large heart-shaped design, the facing of the wall covered with representations of ocean waves, half-moons, and diamonds.

Across the alley is a sign promoting the St. Paul Art Crawl, which starts in a week.

Carrie was getting the alleyway ready for the crowds.

“It’s so sorrowful,” said Matriace. “Yet, the art she produced is uplifting. That’s going to live on forever, right? When she died, she at least did that doing what she loved.”