MPD: 5 shootings kill 5 people, injure at least 3 in the city on Wednesday

The Minneapolis police are examining five shootings with a total of five deaths and at least three injuries until late on Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening.

The first shootout occurred shortly before midnight Tuesday near the 25th Street and the Bloomington Avenue. The police say two men, two women and one teenager were shot at the scene: four were in one vehicle and another was on the sidewalk.

The 17-year-old boy, a 20-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man were declared dead at the crime scene, said O'Hara. The remaining man and the remaining woman were brought to the Hennepin County Medical Center with life -threatening injuries.

The second shootout occurred shortly after Wednesday at 1 p.m. near the intersection of Cedar and 17th Avenue, three blocks from the triple murder of the last night. Officers who reacted to the scene found a man in the thirties who had been shot; He was declared dead at the crime scene.

While it is unclear whether the late man was shot back, O'Hara said that the police recaptured a weapon from the scene.

One of the rounds that were fired on Wednesday afternoon hit a nearby SUV and missed almost two small children – a child and a toddler – who were sitting in the back seat, said O'Hara.

The third fatal shootout occurred shortly before 8 p.m. on Lake Street and 15th Avenue. According to the Minneapolis police, a man was killed at this shootout.

O'Hara said the closeness of the municipality's shootings and rumbling that “something going on” had caused the investigators to believe that the incidents were specifically and potentially associated with gang activities.

“Often what is the case in the community that we see, especially when we believe that there is a connection or a way in connection with gang activity, conflicts tend to be solved in this way,” said O'hara. “And we have seen an incredible amount of violence in the last 13 hours.”

A resident of the area was missing to enter the shooting scene for just a few minutes.

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He told 5 Eyewitness News, he usually leads his dog in the neighborhood at that time.

“My concern is that it is unsure at first,” says Thomas Shyman, a neighbor. “I'm afraid of walking my dog ​​after dark because I was really lucky there.”

“It's a shame, man,” added Kenneth Morgan, another neighbor. “It will be bad. Something has to be done. There was a place where there was no murders for a while – which was good until last night.”

A man named Joe who did not want his last name or face to be used on TV, says that more police are urgently needed in the neighborhood.

“Let us make us drive,” he says. “Let us lead us to drive your bicycles. Let us go out here. Every day, all the time. Let us get a little more help.”

No arrests were made on Wednesday afternoon, but the police say that they follow several clues.

O'Hara encouraged everyone to know the people who are responsible for the shootings to report.

“Progress is fragile”

Two weeks ago, Minneapolis celebrated a large milestone in his search for gun violence: the city showed no murder over a period of two months from February 16 to April 17th.

O'Hara attributed the success of the focused enforcement in problem areas and aimed at high perpetrators and partnerships with community groups and federal prosecutor.

Back-to-back murders on April 18 and 19 ended the series, and a fatal shooting on Sunday evening set the tone for this week.

“It shows that progress is fragile,” said O'Hara, while talking to the latest murders on Wednesday. “And although I am confident that we have very good partnerships and sound strategies, that's not enough. And so when I put an appeal for the community aid, everyone will get up and say:” This is not okay. “

The shootout on Tuesday evening occurred in an area in which violence in weapons easily rise.

While the recordings of shots have decreased in the city in the past two years, the data from the city's crime board shows that these figures have increased steadily in the Midtown Phillips district.

The same applies to the number of fires. At that time in 2023, the Midtown Phillips district only reported two victims compared to four this year. The data that were rotated on Tuesday evening does not contain the data.