Arrest Made in 9-year-old Girl's North Minneapolis Killing
Trinity Ottoson-Smith
Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old girl who was struck by a stray bullet as she was jumping on a trampoline last May in her north Minneapolis neighborhood.
Agents with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Wednesday arrested a man they say fired the gunshot that killed Trinity Ottoson-Smith.
D’Pree Shareef Robinson, 19, was taken into custody in Minneapolis and booked into the Hennepin County Jail on probable cause 2nd-degree murder.
A booking photo for Robinson was not immediately available.
Ottoson-Smith was jumping on a trampoline in the backyard of a friend’s home on the 2200 block of Ilion Ave. N. in Minneapolis on May 15, 2021, when she was shot and injured.
She died 12 days later at North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale.
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The BCA said that their agents developed information about the shooting that led to Robinson’s arrest. Investigators believe Ottoson-Smith was an unintended target of a gang-related drive-by shooting.
BCA agents took Robinson into custody at approximately noon Wednesday at his Minneapolis home without incident.
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“Families deserve to know who did this to their children.” BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said in a media release.
“We have worked diligently to achieve justice for Trinity and her family. This is the first step toward achieving that justice,” Evans said.
Robinson is set to make his first appearance in Hennepin County District Court later this week.
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