ROCHESTER, Minn. – A jury found a Rochester man guilty of attempted murder for a gun attack on a woman at her apartment on Christmas Eve. Sentencing for Philip Turner, 35, was scheduled for November. The charges were second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and ineligible possession of a firearm. Guilty on all counts, the jury said. The violence was in the 37-year-old woman’s apartment in northwest Rochester in the presence of her two children age 5 and 2. Police found the woman the next morning at a bedroom of the apartment. She was in critical condition with a gunsht wound to the head. Her husband, who as not present, had asked police to make a welfare check. The children were unharmed. A spent shell casing from a .38. caliber semi-automatic handgun was nearby. When Turner was arrested, he had a .38 magazine with bullets. The handgun was found in the snow near his apartment.
Turner. Sentencing in November.