Seeking a cease-fire on our city streets The both-and approach enforcement plus prevention is urgently needed.
By EDITORIAL BOARD, Star Tribune May 22, 2021 12:20pm Text size Copy shortlink:
From Friday night into Saturday morning, 15 people were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, three fatally, as a surge of violent chaos spirals seemingly out of control. In recent weeks, three city children under the age of 10 have been shot in the head, and one has died. They are among 22 children struck by gunfire this year.
In St. Paul, shots fired and victims injured are also way up, leading to a weekend earlier this month during which seven were shot and more than 150 shell casings were recovered from three locations.
Downtown Minneapolis Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 8 Injured
MINNEAPOLIS Ten people were shot, two of them fatally, when gunfire broke out outside a downtown Minneapolis nightclub overnight Saturday, capping an exceptionally violent night across the city.
The incident, one of the most casualty-laden shootings in the city’s history, occurred just before 2 a.m. outside Monarch, 322 N. 1st Av., police spokesman John Elder said.
The two deaths, coming just hours after a shooting homicide in north Minneapolis, brought the number of 2021 homicides in the city to 31. They also came as a loosening of pandemic restrictions and warmer weather are drawing crowds back to restaurants, bars and entertainment venues.
Ben Henry Created: May 20, 2021 10:41 PM
Minneapolis city leaders received an update on the city’s violent crime this year: Simply put, it’s been violent.
Not all numbers shared were bad the Minneapolis Police Department reports that property crimes are down compared to the same point in the year as 2020, and so are rapes and domestic aggravated assaults.
Overall though, police say violent crime has increased in 2021. This was shared in the city’s Health and Public Safety Committee meeting on Thursday.
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Squad cars are parked near the scene of a homicide Thursday, April 22, 2021, in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis.
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May 21, 2021
FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey addresses the media in Minneapolis. From COVID-19 to a budget shortfall, and from the death of George Floyd to the more recent death of a 6-year-old girl from gun violence, the mayor of Minneapolis says his city has experienced one trauma after another in the last year and the city s Black community has felt the pain the most. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool File)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 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 says his city has experienced one trauma after another this past year and the Black community has felt the most pain.
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