Homicide investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding a man they say is a suspect in a fatal stabbing in Apple Valley early Sunday morning.

About 3:12 a.m. Sunday, police were called to the intersection of Pennock Avenue and 138th Street on reports of a man on the sidewalk, the Apple Valley Police Department said in a news release. When they arrived, they found the man was covered in blood with multiple stab wounds. Despite lifesaving measures, the man was ultimately pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

On Tuesday, police named a suspect in that killing. They are asking for help in locating 20-year-old Aron Isait Medina Rojas. He goes by the name Medina Rojas, drives a 2018 gray Chrysler 300 with the Minnesota license plate number JPU 845, and might be trying to escape authorities by fleeing to Mexico.

Authorities say that anyone who sees Medina Rojas should call 911. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the Apple Valley Police Department at 952-322-2323.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will release the identity of the victim at a later date.

— Kristi Miller

Shooting victim ID’d as St. Paul woman

A woman who died after she was shot in a vehicle traveling on a Minneapolis interstate was officially identified Tuesday as a 24-year-old from St. Paul.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office said Anassia Wiseman died at the hospital of a gunshot wound to her head on June 25. She and another woman in the vehicle were shot on westbound Interstate 394 near Penn Avenue.

The two women got themselves to the hospital after shots were fired into their vehicle. Police were notified about 10:40 p.m. on June 22. The other woman in the vehicle had a non-life-threatening injury, police said.

“Two families have had their lives forever changed by gun violence,” said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara in a statement. “One of those families had hope that their loved one would recover and experienced further tragedy when that hope was lost. Our investigators will not let her family lose the hope that whoever is responsible will be brought to justice.”

No one had been arrested as of Tuesday morning, and police said their investigation is ongoing. Police ask anyone with information to contact them at policetips@minneapolismn.gov or 612-673-5845, or anonymously to CrimeStoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).

— Mara H. Gottfried