Teen under 3 killed, 2 heavily wounded in “targeted” Twin Cities Mass Shooting

Three people were killed and two other serious wounded in what the police referred to as “targeted” and possibly gang -related shootout in South Minneapolis.

The activations of the shotpotter pulled the officers into a alley near the intersection of the Bloomington Avenue S. and E. 25th Street in the neighborhood of Phillips midtown shortly before midnight. The police arrived to find five victims, said police chief Brian O'Hara.

Three of the victims – a teenager, a man and a woman – were declared dead at the scene. Two others, one man and a woman, were taken to a hospital with injuries. The man, said O'Hara, was in a “heavy” condition.

No arrests were announced by the police from Wednesday afternoon. A planned news information was postponed after the police reacted to a shootout in the 2100 block of the Cedar Avenue S. At least a dozen police cars were on the Cedar Ave. -Input ramp to the Highway 55 parked, where a witness saw a body on the street nearby on a scooter.

“Early signs are that this shootout has a high probability that it was specifically and potentially connected to a gang,” said O'Hara last night at the crime scene and added that several rounds were fired south about an hour later. The police found no victims, but found evidence of shots, said O'Hara. Shortly afterwards someone was stopped at the Northwestern Hospital Abbott with gunshot wounds.

It was not immediately clear whether the second shootout was related to the first, but it is “possibly”, he said.

The scene around the shooting was quiet on Wednesday morning, as the East Phillips district resumed business as usual. An employee in a market next to the shootout said that he knew nothing about the shootout and the shop was closed when it happened. Several law enforcement vehicles were parked along the road, but the police band and all other evidence that had occurred here were gone. What seemed to be graffiti of duel gangs that were marked near garages in a alley.

The women met by shots were 20-year-old twins, told their aunt of the Star Tribune.