A man shot by St. Paul police officers last week had shot three people in a Minneapolis homeless encampment, according to new murder charges filed Monday.

Two men were killed in the Minneapolis shooting the day before the St. Paul confrontation. The medical examiner’s office said Monday that a third victim of the Minneapolis shootings, a woman, has died from her injuries.

Earl Bennett, 40, remained hospitalized Monday, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the shooting by police. He was shot by officers after pointing a gun at them last Monday at Snelling and University avenues, police say.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office charged Bennett last week with attempted murder in a separate shooting at a Minneapolis sober house about two-and-a-half hours before St. Paul police officers responded to the shots-fired call where they encountered Bennett.He’s now formally charged in the triple shooting at the homeless encampment. Police said last week he was the suspect in the case.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a Monday statement that her office will prosecute Bennett “to bring appropriate accountability for his actions and to protect our community.”

“These were horrifying acts of violence,” she said in a statement. “Mr. Bennett targeted vulnerable people and took the lives of three members of our community. My thoughts are with their loved ones.”

Bennett is in custody at Regions Hospital. Attorneys aren’t listed for him in the court files of the three cases filed against him in the last week.

Three shot in tent

On Oct. 27, last Sunday, Minneapolis officers responded about 2:20 p.m. to a shooting at a small homeless encampment along railroad tracks on the 4400 block between Hiawatha and Snelling avenues.

Christopher Martell Washington, 38, and Louis Mitchell Lemons Jr., 32, had each been shot in their neck. Lemon was also shot in the back of his head and Washington in his thigh, and both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Samantha Jo Moss, 35, was taken to HCMC in critical condition, with gunshot wounds to her head, shoulder and hand. She died at the hospital Saturday, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Multiple people told police that the three victims had been inside Washington’s tent, smoking methamphetamine, when an unknown man wearing a balaclava-type mask walked up and asked for “Jigga,” who they knew was Washington, according to the criminal complaint filed Monday against Bennett. The masked man said he needed to talk to him and identified himself as “E.” He briefly pulled down his mask to identify himself to Washington.

Surveillance video from the area showed the man arriving on an electric bike and entering the tent. About 10-15 minutes later, video surveillance captured the sound of several gunshots followed by a long pause and then several more gunshots, the complaint said. The video showed the man leave the tent and ride away on his electric bike.

Police found nine casings inside the tent and forensic analysts later determined they were fired from the same firearm.

After another shooting, homicide suspect ID’d

The day after the triple shooting, police responded about 5:15 p.m. to a shooting that injured a resident at a sober living house in the 3500 block of Columbus Avenue in Minneapolis.

Two people identified Bennett, a resident of the home, as the shooter. They said Bennett “showed obvious signs of intoxication when he returned to the housing facility that evening,” according to a criminal complaint charging him with attempted first-degree murder, with premeditation, in that shooting.

Staff told Bennett he would be subject to a drug test, at which point he became upset in a communal dining room and shot another resident in the neck, the complaint said.

Investigators working on the encampment homicides showed an employee of the sober home a still frame from surveillance video of the suspect and he identified Bennett as the man in the photo, and said he knew Bennett had an electric bike, said the complaint in the triple homicide.

St. Paul police shooting

About 7:45 p.m. last Monday, St. Paul police officers responding to a shots-fired call encountered a man, later identified as Bennett, walking and holding a handgun, which police say he wouldn’t drop.

Bennett held the gun to his own head and pointed it at officers, according to an assault charge filed against him in Ramsey County, accusing him of pointing a weapon at police. St. Paul officers shot Bennett multiple times.

A 9 mm handgun that Bennett dropped after he was shot in St. Paul did not hold a magazine; it had a round of ammunition in its chamber, according to a complaint against him. It was a match to casings found at the encampment and sober house shootings, according the complaint charging him with three counts of second-degree intentional murder, not premeditated.