Family Of Minneapolis Shooting Victim: 'Put Down The Guns'
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A string of violent deaths in north Minneapolis brought dozens of community members together Sunday afternoon to talk about the shootings.
On Thursday, 50-year-old Michael Whitelaw was found shot to death inside his apartment on Glenwood Avenue.
Late Friday, Dana Logan was shot and killed inside her car near 36th and Queen Avenues North. She was one of two victims shot that night.
Early Saturday morning, 31-year-old Richard Daemar Ambers died after being shot multiple times in a car on the 4800 block of Bryant Avenue North.
Sunday afternoon, people in north Minneapolis joined one another in prayer.
At a vigil near the scene of the crime on Sunday, Dana Logan's family said they do not believe she was the intended target. Members of her family asked anyone with information to come forward.
A plea they say they've heard too many Minneapolis families have to make this year.
Logan's death is the 33rd homicide in the city so far in 2016. Logan's sister said Dana, 46, was dropping off some relatives Friday night when she was shot near her home at 36th Avenue and Queen Avenue North at around 11 p.m.
Verena Jean Patterson said Logan had been married for more than 20 years, she had no children but treated everyone like family. As people prayed for her sister and to find who is responsible for her death, Logan's sister prayed for people to stop using gun violence to solve disputes in the neighborhood.
"Just please, please, please, put down the guns," Patterson said. "It isn't just my sister but the little children, elders, that are being taken away."