Man Charged In North Mpls. Fatal Shooting
A 37-year-old man is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder in a shooting that left another man dead, according to the Hennepin County Attorney.
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A 37-year-old man is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder in a shooting that left another man dead, according to the Hennepin County Attorney.
Police have identified the man who was found shot to death inside a north Minneapolis home early Thursday morning. Authorities responded to the 2000 block of North Hillside Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. on a report of a shooting. When they got to the scene, they found an adult male dead inside the residence.
Police are looking for a suspect after a man was found shot to death inside a north Minneapolis home early Thursday morning. Authorities were called to the 2000 block of North Hillside Avenue at about 2:26 a.m. on a report of a shooting.
Minneapolis Police say a juvenile was shot while walking down a north Minneapolis street early Wednesday night. Police spokesman John Elder says the young male was walking on North Lowry and Logan avenues around 6 p.m. when he heard gunshots, and soon realized he had been shot. The juvenile sought help nearby and was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
The cause of the north Minneapolis duplex fire that claimed the lives of five children last Friday is being classified as "undetermined," according to the Minneapolis Arson Unit.
Authorities have released the names of five children who died in a north Minneapolis duplex fire last Friday. Crews were called just after 5 a.m. to the 2800 block of Colfax Avenue North on a report of smoke in the area that quickly changed to a heavy fire.
Two children remain in critical condition after a fire killed five of their siblings on Friday morning, and investigators are still trying to determine how the fire started in the first place. The fire happened at a duplex on 29th Street and Colfax Avenue North in Minneapolis shortly after 5 a.m.
Only months after Troy Lewis' family lost a wife and mother, a raging house fire in north Minneapolis claimed five more lives. Seven residents living on the main floor made it out alive, including Taleaha Cox. Seconds later, she heard Troy's screams coming from the second floor. "My little brother's like, 'I think the house is on fire.' And then all I heard was the man upstairs like, 'Help! Police! Fire, fire, fire! Police!'" Cox said. "He was hanging out the window."
Five children died after a Friday morning fire in a north Minneapolis duplex, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office. Crews were called to the 2800 block of Colfax Avenue North around 5 a.m.
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