Overview
- Officers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to reports of a man waving a gun near Brooklyn Boulevard and 56th Avenue North, and an exchange of gunfire followed.
- The man was struck, received first aid at the scene, and was later declared dead at a hospital.
- Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said investigators believe he had earlier fatally shot a 14-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man who were his relatives.
- O’Hara said he had been released on bond the same day after an arrest on warrants that included fleeing police and possessing a firearm with a conversion switch.
- Brooklyn Center placed the involved officers on leave as the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension opened an independent investigation, with witnesses describing a barrage of gunfire.