Mariah Rosanna Samuels' ex-boyfriend, David Eugene Wright, stalked her in Minnesota

 

On September 15, 2025, a 50-year-old man was booked into Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of fatally shooting a lady who claimed in a court file that he pistol-whipped her and threatened to hurt others in her family a few weeks previously.

Mariah Rosanna Samuels, 34, was named by her family as the victim of the shooting on the 1400 block of Russell Avenue N. in Minneapolis. Officers arrived at the home around 7:50 a.m. and provided help to Samuels, but she died on the scene.


The suspect shooter fled before officers arrived, but police caught up to him and booked him into jail about 3 p.m.

On August 26, Samuels petitioned Hennepin County District Court for an order for protection from the former boyfriend for herself and her 11-year-old son. The filing alleged a harrowing sequence of events in the wake of Samuels breaking up with the suspect by phone. The man was given a copy of the petition on August 29, according to court records.

The man, seeing that Samuels was not home on August 21, “called me [while] outside my home to drop off a gift,” her account began. He then threatened in texts to blow up the house, where her father also lives, the filing continued.

He tracked her to a home a couple blocks away where Samuels was dropping the son off, met her outside and “proceeded to hit me with his hand and the gun in my face and upper body,” the petition read.

The suspect went on to push her against a fence, hit her and grab her throat with one hand while still having the gun in his other hand, the filing noted. At the same time, he threatened to shoot her and anyone who came out of the home, she alleged.

Samuels explained in the filing that the suspect was attempting to knock her phone out of her hand while speaking to her best friend, who was calling 911 on her behalf.

She added that the encounter left her with a knot and scratches on her head and bruises on her collarbone and legs.

The suspect remains jailed pending charges.