Charges in the Zebuhr Killing

For nearly three weeks, investigators handling the killing of Michael Zebuhr in the Uptown area of Minneapolis combined skill with a little luck to put together their case against two 17-year-old boys charged Thursday with first-degree murder. What they still don't know is why one of the teenagers allegedly shot Zebuhr in the head during a street robbery for his mother's purse. (snip) Johnson was arrested Tuesday a few blocks from his home in north Minneapolis, but Jacobs hasn't been caught.

"Our main focus was to get these guys off the street," said Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. "We're not as much concerned about why they did this."

Johnson and Jacobs don't have extensive criminal histories. It's unclear where they attended high school. Nobody was home Thursday at the addresses listed in the criminal complaints for the teens.

The killing shocked residents and city and community leaders because the Uptown area doesn't have much violent crime.

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How can they NOT know where these guys attended high school? Nobody was home? One suspect is still at large? Why don't they care about why the crime was committed?

Weird.