Overview
- After shots were reported around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, officers found a 16-year-old with life-threatening wounds on the 1300 block of 18th Ave N who died at the scene.
- A 44-year-old man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, drove to a gas station near Broadway and Knox Ave N for help, and was later taken to North Memorial Health.
- Homicide investigators and MPD Forensic Scientists processed the scene and are collecting evidence to establish the sequence of events and any connection between the two victims.
- Chief Brian O’Hara called the killing a heartbreaking act of violence and said investigators are working urgently to identify everyone responsible.
- MPD asked anyone with information to email policetips@minneapolismn.gov or call 612-673-5845 and said the fatal shooting is at least the city’s 17th homicide this year.