(LINO LAKES) – The sister of a man arrested for murder in Lino Lakes last month has now been charged in the same crime.
According to the Anoka County Attorney’s Office, 47-year-old Melissa Zielinski s charged with one count of aiding and abetting second-degree intentional murder.
It happened August 27 at a home on West Shadow Lake Drive in Lino Lakes. The owner of the home saw a man and a woman leaving out the front door and found his son mortally wounded in the basement of the home. Despite life-saving efforts by medics and officers, the man died on the scene.Officers arrested 43-year-old Nicholas Zielinski in connection with the crime. He is booked into the Anoka County Jail on a charge of 2nd degree murder.The victim was 22-year-old Karl Henderson of Lino Lakes.
Officers said they found a handgun at the scene near Henderson’s body that had DNA that matched Zielinski’s, and he and his sister, Melissa, were seen leaving the scene in a black SUV registered in her name.
According to incident reports, the motive behind the shooting appears to have been related to money the Zielinskis said Henderson owed them.
Nicholas Zielinski. Melissa Zielinski
