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From COVID-19 to a budget shortfall, or George Floyd ‘s death to the recent death of a 6-year-old girl from gun violence, the mayor of Minneapolis, a William & Mary grauduate, says his city has experienced one trauma after another this past year
MINNEAPOLIS â Minneapolis police are bringing in outside help as they try to temper weekend violence that killed a least four people, including a college senior who was out celebrating graduation.
Mayor Jacob Frey, speaking a day after a mass shooting downtown, said the city has asked state and federal agencies for assistance, as Minneapolis police face a shortage of officers. Safety in our city has to be a priority, Frey said Sunday, calling the reinforcements really, really critical.
The weekend s victims included two men believed to have been struck by gunfire on the North Side, a suspected gunman in the mass shooting downtown that injured eight, and the college student whose family described as an innocent bystander.
Two men were killed and eight others injured in a shooting in Minneapolis. One of the victims was hours away from graduating from the University of St. Thomas.
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Grappling with a shortage of officers and increased crime, Minneapolis is seeking federal and state resources after the latest bout of violence in the city included a mass shooting that left a college student dead hours before his graduation Saturday.
Amid the increased violence in the city where George Floyd was killed nearly one year ago, officials also announced a $30,000 reward this weekend in the hunt for suspects responsible for the separate shootings of three children over the past several weeks, including one 9-year-old girl killed by stray gunfire while jumping on a backyard trampoline.