Ramsey County charged Jamal Jevonta Nash with two counts of second-degree murder in the hammer killing of his father.

Two second-degree murder counts are what the complaint accuses him of. They are not a finding about his mental state. The mother's account of a new medication and a hospital stay he left early is in that charging document, which is the prosecution's version of the facts. The date of death is not stable across the coverage. FOX 9's summary puts the death on Oct. 18. KARE 11 and CBS Minnesota say he died the next morning. No outlet used here has reported a result from the Wednesday appearance.

The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Jamal Jevonta Nash, 29, was charged Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, in Ramsey County District Court with two counts of second-degree murder in the killing of his father, Thomas Roy Nash, 69. FOX 9 reported the same two counts and spelled him Jamal Jevonte Nash. KARE 11 used Jamal Nash and described a second-degree murder charge. CBS Minnesota reported that a 29-year-old North St. Paul man was charged Tuesday with two counts of second-degree murder and did not name him or his father. The Star Tribune and FOX 9 reported he is jailed on $1 million bail. The Star Tribune reported court records do not list an attorney for him and that he was scheduled to appear Wednesday morning. This story does not have a report of what happened at that appearance. The counts are the accusation in the complaint.

The complaint, as FOX 9, KARE 11 and the Star Tribune reported it, says North St. Paul officers were sent about 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 18 to a home in the 2700 block of Chippewa Avenue. The 911 caller was his mother. The Star Tribune named her as Leslie Nash in its account of the complaint. She said her son had struck her husband in the head with a hammer, those outlets reported. FOX 9 reported officers found the father unresponsive and bleeding heavily. KARE 11 reported he was taken to Regions Hospital and died the next morning. CBS Minnesota reported the same next-morning death at Regions. FOX 9's summary called it the Oct. 18 death. CBS Minnesota also dated the incident to Saturday. Oct. 18, 2026, was a Sunday. Sunday in the Star Tribune, KARE 11 and FOX 9, and Saturday in CBS Minnesota, are not the same day. He had moved into the house the day before, the Star Tribune and FOX 9 reported. FOX 9 reported the complaint says the father had set up a television in Nash's room and was unpacking in the living room when Nash ran out and swung the hammer, and that the blows, two of them, struck the right side of the father's head without a warning or an argument.

What the mother told police about his health is in the complaint, and it is her account, not a court finding. FOX 9, KARE 11 and CBS Minnesota reported she said he was diagnosed with schizophrenia five years ago, that his medication changed in mid-September, and that after the change he was stressed, stayed up for days, paced, stopped eating and was moody. She said he had never been aggressive or violent and that he loved his father, those outlets reported. The Star Tribune reported the complaint says he and his parents went to a hospital after a seizure, that he called and asked to be picked up, and that he left without his doctor's knowledge. KARE 11 reported she said a doctor called the house wanting him to stay longer to see whether the new medication was changing his behavior, and that Nash told her he had been released. KARE 11 reported she wrestled the hammer away, that he said "Oh my God," and that he cried and screamed before she told him they needed to call 911 and he ran out the back door.

His statements to police are also in the complaint, and the wording is not identical from station to station. FOX 9 and the Star Tribune reported that after he was advised of his rights he said, "Someone was attacking my whole family," and later, "I hit my father. He was holding me hostage." CBS Minnesota reported the line as "he was holding me for hostage." The Star Tribune reported he also said someone had hit his father and that his mother was crying. FOX 9 reported the complaint says that, asked by officers, he admitted hitting the 911 caller's head with the hammer twice. KARE 11, the Star Tribune and CBS Minnesota describe the two blows as the ones to his father and do not report a blow to his mother. A line about the caller and a line about the father are not the same admission. His brother got him on the phone and police arrested him after the family learned where he was, the Star Tribune and KARE 11 reported. Officers recovered a hammer, FOX 9 reported. CBS Minnesota reported he faces up to 40 years in prison. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.