Overview
- Minneapolis police confirmed late Tuesday that the 71-year-old man assaulted in a downtown apartment died at the hospital, and his name has not been released.
- Officers had responded April 5 to 314 Hennepin Avenue, where they found the man unresponsive near the 15th-floor elevators.
- Charging documents say surveillance video shows an elevator dispute that ended when 61-year-old resident Michael Joseph Walker punched the man, who fell.
- EMS reported no pulse and bleeding from both ears, findings prosecutors describe as signs of severe head trauma.
- Walker was arrested in the building on first- and third-degree assault counts, and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office says it expects to add a homicide charge.