VIDEO: Fight at Uptown Bar Leads to Gunfire, Man Dead
Officers with a vehicle after several possible suspects bailed on foot near West 31st St. & Pleasant Ave. No arrests were made. MN CRIME PHOTO
A man was killed in a shooting late Saturday night in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Witnesses said a fight at a bar just before midnight nearby led to gunfire near Lagoon Ave. & Girard Ave. S.
A man in his early 30s was found there with a gunshot wound to the chest and died at the scene, police have confirmed.
Witnesses at the scene described more than a dozen gunshots being fired as bystanders ran from the scene.
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MPD said a “verbal altercation between several individuals” moved outside, where shots were fired.
Possible suspects were reported to have fled in a black Dodge Charger. Police stopped a Charger near W. 31st St. & Pleasant Ave. shortly after, according to initial police dispatch audio, but authorities said early Sunday that there were no arrests yet made in connection to the shooting.
The shooting is the 26th homicide of 2022 in the city and the fourth homicide since Friday. The victim has not yet been identified.
Earlier Saturday and in an unrelated fatal shooting, a man in his late 20s was killed on the 4100 block of Portland Ave., police said. A male and female, who police called possible suspects, fled into a nearby residence after the shooting. They eventually surrendered around 2:30 p.m. after a SWAT team responded.
And just hours after the Uptown fatal shooting, a man was fatally stabbed aboard a city bus and died of his injury near Lagoon Ave. & Emerson Ave. S. around 2:10 a.m. Sunday, counted as the city’s 27th homicide. The suspect reportedly fled on foot and no arrests have been announced in relation.
Anyone with information should call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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