100 rounds fired in Bloomington neighborhood shooting; 1 hurt, police say
Police in Bloomington, Minnesota, say one person suffered minor injuries when multiple armed people fired around 100 shots overnight Tuesday in a residential neighborhood.
In a Tuesday afternoon news conference, Police Chief Booker Hodges says officers were called around 12:47 a.m. to the area of Harriet Avenue South between West 99th and 102nd streets, just east of Lyndale Avenue South and Interstate 35W.
Hodges played security camera footage of the shooting in which the suspects appear to be using auto sears, an illegal modification device that turns a semi-automatic handgun into a fully-automatic machine gun.
Neighbors in the area say the bullets pierced parked cars, trash cans, even the bedroom window of someone blocks away.
For Lakesha Owens, she's concerned for her own safety.
"My son was sleeping on the end window there. That's too close for comfort," Owens said.
"For those of you who did this shooting, you know that I know that you know that I know that we know who you are," Hodges said. "So my suggestion is you turn yourself in. Let's stop playing these games with you running around out here and doing all this stuff."
Hodges was joined Tuesday by Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt and the police chiefs of neighboring Eden Prairie and Edina, Matt Sackett and Todd Milburn.
Several west metro communities have been reeling from a spate of gun violence, including Friday night's double shooting outside Eden Prairie High School's homecoming game, and a shooting outside a gas station in the city Monday night.
Also overnight Tuesday, a man showed up to Edina's M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound, which police believe is tied to a Minneapolis shooting.
Last month in the city, a group of teenagers was shot at while playing basketball near Our Lady of Grace Church. Milburn said his investigators recovered 55 spent bullet casings at the scene.
Police say they haven't made any arrests. When asked why there haven't been any arrests in shootings that are caught on camera, or happen in massive crowds, they said it comes down to cooperation from families, friends and witnesses.
