Crime & Safety

Bloody Tub, Quilt Link Townhome to Schunk's Murder

A newly released warrant details some of the information that led police to conclude the Burnsville college student was killed at the Rosemount townhouse.

A plastic tub with a “significant amount” of suspected blood and a quilt with suspected blood may explain why police think Burnsville college student Anarae Schunk was killed in a Rosemount townhouse where Ashley M. Conrade lived with Shavelle Chavez-Nelson, the Star Tribune reported.

Chavez-Nelson has not been charged in the Schunk case, although he is a suspect. A Dakota County Grand Jury indicted Chavez-Nelson, also known as Anthony Lee Nelson, with first-degree murder (premeditation) and second-degree murder (intentional) in the death of Palagor Obang Jobi, 23.

Jobi died from multiple gun shot wounds early on Sept. 22. Jobi and Nelson were fighting over Chavez-Nelson’s girlfriend when witnesses reported hearing gunshots, according to the complaint and a Dakota County Attorney's Office news release.

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Schrunk, who was with Chavez-Nelson and Conrade at the bar, went missing that same night and was found dead Sept. 31.

Ashley Conrade, 24, has also been charged with aiding an offender on suspicion that she harbored Chavez-Nelson at her Rosemount townhouse. 

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The Star Tribune reported that a newly released search warrant affidavit details how officers found the tub in the rafters of the townhouse’s garage. The quilt was inside the tub.

The warrant also stated the Schunk’s cell phone records showed that she had talked to Chavez-Nelson before the shooting.


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