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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Alleged Brooklyn Park Murderer Dymond Rene Hayden Is (Apparently) A Resident Of North Minneapolis...
Photo, blog post by John Hoff
Dymond Rene Hayden, DOB 5/27/92, who is a male despite having what sure looks like a "chick name," sits in the Hennepin County Jail, charged with a murder in Brooklyn Park. The victim was his girlfriend, Ashantai Nicole Finch.
The murder, reportedly a domestic homicide, has received mainstream media coverage, click here for example. Here is another example, click here.
(Is his name pronounced like "diamond?" Or like "almond?" How could you KNOW just by looking at it? It looks like a STRIPPER name! Like, you'd plug the name into one of those online sites to find out "what is your stripper name" and it would come back "You already HAVE a stripper name!")
Hayden's address on the jail roster is 3014 Humboldt Ave. N., a rental owned by Leif Ueland of 3010 Humboldt Ave. N.
Dymond (god, that NAME!) has a previous conviction for carrying a pistol without a permit. (Where? In his garter at the strip club?)
There was a sentencing order on March 7 of this year. A criminal judgment and warrant of commitment the same day. There is a notation of "returned mail" on March 19. He was sentenced to a year but only required to serve 30 days. The time could be served as electronic home monitoring or work release "if eligible." Looks like he received two years of probation so would have been on probation when he murdered this woman.
Note that I didn't use the word "allegedly." Yeah, the facts in this are so egregious and so well documented I decided to be edgy and drop the word "allegedly," just to be different. Sue me, Dymond, with your big bad stripper name.
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I know Leif and his wife Colleen. They are well respected residents of the Jordan neighborhood. I believe they live in a duplex, either that, or at some point through their years living in Jordan they have acquired their next door house to be owner-present landlords in the fight for revitalization. They are super interesting and up-standing folks. They are very active in arts and theatre community of Minneapolis. I believe the wife teaches performance dance, such as ballet and other classical forms of dance. They are on the younger side as far as landlords go, no crusty slummy people like we usually see (coughreitmancoughgreggjohnsoncough). They would absolutely fall into the category that you refer to as "revitalizers".
ReplyDeleteWell, then if this guy is renting from them or falsely using their address, I hope you will make them aware of it.
ReplyDeleteI hope this scum bag rots in hell. You took my sister. I pray each day only god deals with u coward.
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ReplyDeleteCongrats on being the first spam comment I've published since this blog started.
ReplyDeleteBut I believe all good citizens in NoMi should install cameras to monitor and record what's going on right outside their houses.
Here is a copy of the criminal complaint in the Dymond Rene Hayden murder charge.
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The Star Tribune has already made the complaint available online so I don't intend to do a whole blog post with the details from the complaint.
Greetings. I own that property and can assure you that individual has neither rented nor set foot on that property. Freaky to know that the address was used. I own the house and live next door. Great block, great neighbors.
ReplyDeleteGreetings. I own that house. I can assure you that the individual in your post has neither rented nor ever set foot on the property. Definitely wouldn't have passed the background check. I also live next door and have for ten years. We have great neighbors, great block. Freaky to know someone like that can offer up any address as their destination and it doesn't have to correspond to reality.
ReplyDeleteI went to school with Stripper Boy. Total jerk. He also had a daughter with THE most immature little girl I've ever met. Lord watch over that child. My sympathy to the family of his victim.
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