Ex-UPS worker wore uniform and killed couple in front of young kids, MN cops say
A former United Parcel Service worker dressed up as a delivery driver for his old job and broke into a family’s home, where a couple and a 20-year-old were killed in front of the family’s young children, Minnesota authorities said.
Alonzo Mingo, 39, has now been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and aiding and abetting first-degree murder, Anoka County records show.
McClatchy News reached out to Mingo’s attorney for comment Sept. 12 but did not immediately receive a response.
Mingo is accused of a triple homicide that claimed the lives of 39-year-old Mario Alberto Trejo Estrada, his wife, 42-year-old Shannon Patricia Jungwirth, and her son, 20-year-old Jorge Alexander Reyes-Jungwirth, KSTP reported.
Investigators said Mingo had help from two brothers, identified by KARE as Omari Malik Shumpert and Demetrius Trenton Shumpert. The brothers are facing murder charges as well, CBS reported.
Mingo had been working for UPS until a few weeks before the Jan. 26, 2024 fatal shootings, the Coon Rapids Police Department wrote in a probable cause affidavit.
That day, Mingo and the two other men, one of whom was also wearing clothing similar to that a UPS delivery driver, pulled up to the home and got out of Mingo’s vehicle with a cardboard box, as if they were doing a delivery, officers said.
Surveillance footage from inside the home shows Mingo entering a bedroom where the woman and two kids under the age of 5 were, police said.
Mingo held the woman and one of the other family members at gunpoint, “demanding money,” then the adults left the bedroom as the children followed, according to officers.
Video shows Mingo and the woman returning to the bedroom, then Mingo shoots her “in the head at point blank range,” police wrote in the report.
The older child entered the room crying, then the younger child joined them until the older one pulled the younger one away and out of the room, officers said.
Police didn’t say in the complaint who pulled the trigger and killed Jungwirth’s husband and son.
All three men were seen walking out of the home seven minutes after arriving, then they left in Mingo’s car, according to investigators.
Dispatch received a call for help at the home in the suburbs of Minneapolis, and they could hear a “possible domestic situation” happening in the background, police said.
When law enforcement arrived, they reported finding the husband, wife and adult son dead in different rooms of the home.
Authorities found Mingo less than three hours after the shooting with articles of the UPS delivery uniform in his backpack, and they arrested him, police said.
He initially denied having anything to do with the incident and said he was at home all day, but fingerprints found on the cardboard box in the victims’ home belonged to Mingo, according to the complaint.