A St. Paul man was charged Monday in St. Louis County District Court with first-degree assault after being accused of shooting a Cloquet native and Marine veteran of the Iraq war in a residence in Duluth's East Hillside neighborhood.
Daniel Jophie Kriesel, 34, is also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
David Goward Jr., 30, was shot and critically injured on July 13. Goward was shot in the heart and is in critical but stable condition at a Duluth hospital. Goward received a Purple Heart after being wounded in Iraq.
Police said robbery was a possible motive for the crime; it's believed that two guns were stolen from Goward.
Kriesel has had 21 criminal cases filed against him in Hennepin, Ramsey, Becker, Clay and Mahnomen counties -- including assault, burglary, theft, receiving stolen property, the sale of controlled substances, terroristic threats, tampering with a motor vehicle and several cases of fleeing police. He has been convicted of 10 felonies.
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Kriesel was being held in the St. Louis County Jail on $60,000 bail.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 11.
