Shakopee police are investigating a homicide after a woman was brutally murdered mid-afternoon Wednesday on a residential street not far from downtown.

Orono police say the 51-year-old man who was behind the wheel of a Bentley when it crashed Saturday night, killing two young men, has turned himself in on charges of criminal vehicular homicide this afternoon.

Authorities have arrested a suspect in relation to a fatal shooting Friday night at a Burnsville motel that left one victim dead.

St. Paul Fire crews responded to a house fire around 9 p.m. on Sunday evening after a passerby called 911 and reported they saw smoke coming from a residence on the 200 block of Ruth St N.

A three-year-old boy and an adult male believed to be in his 30s were both struck by gunfire during a shootout around 9:45 p.m. on the 3300 block of Emerson Ave. N. Friday. The boy was rushed to the hospital with a broken femur and the man transported by ambulance with a gunshot to the shoulder. Both are expected to survive.

The man who was shot and killed by an Olivia, Minn., police officer after an altercation in an alley early Sunday morning has been identified by the Minnesota BCA and a shotgun was recovered at the scene, the agency said.

Roseville fire crews were kept busy on July 4th, responding to two house fires as well as many grass and garbage can fires in the evening hours and overnight.

One person died at the scene of a collision between a passenger vehicle and a light-rail train in St. Paul late Sunday afternoon. A male passenger in the vehicle was extricated and transported to the hospital with critical injuries, police said.

Thirteen months to the day after kneeling on the neck of George Floyd outside a south Minneapolis corner store, former officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to serve more than 22 years in prison.

St. Cloud police say a man is dead after an apparent random shooting early Sunday morning while he was standing at the doorway of a home. A suspect was later arrested and booked on suspicion of 2nd-degree murder.

Minneapolis police are investigating a suspected homicide after a 911 caller found "body parts" on the 300 block of Main St. NE. around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. It was initially reported by a passerby who said they found a human leg wrapped in plastic, according to initial scanner dispatches. Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson John Elder confirmed the news in an early afternoon media conference downtown.

A man who is believed to have driven his vehicle into a blockaded section of Uptown Minneapolis during a protest Sunday night was taken into custody by police after being detained by bystanders at the scene. The crash killed a 31-year-old woman who was at the protest and injured another person. The suspect driver is now being held without bail at the Hennepin County Jail.

Two more Minnesotans who authorities accuse of being involved in the deadly riot and breach of the U.S. Capitol were arrested on Friday, June 11, the FBI said. The two men join three other Minnesotans who were previously charged in relation to the events on Jan. 6th in Washington, D.C.

A Staples, Minn., man was sentenced Monday to more than two years in prison for his role in the arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct building in late May 2020. Bryce Michael Williams, 27, earlier pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit arson. As part of his sentencing, he was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release and pay $12 million in restitution.

One man was killed and another man critically wounded in an early morning shooting in downtown Rochester near a parking ramp at 3rd St. SW & 1st Ave. A suspect was quickly taken into custody shortly after 2:30 a.m. Sunday near the original incident location.

Woodbury police are investigating the fatal shooting of a teen boy near a graduation party on the 6100 block of Edgewood Ave. around 10:45 p.m. Saturday, June 5. Officers found between 30-40 people running from the area after receiving multiple 911 calls with people screaming in the background.

The Ramsey County and Hennepin County deputies who are believed to have fatally shot an armed suspect at the top of a parking ramp in the Uptown area of south Minneapolis were not wearing body cameras and there is no squad car dashcam video of the incident, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said.

A suspect was fatally shot by an officer inside a parking ramp near Fremont Ave. S. & W. Lake St. on Thursday afternoon. The man—who was confirmed to have died at the scene—was being pursued by officers before multiple gunshots were fired on the top floor of the parking ramp and it’s still unclear if the man fired shots at officers before he was struck.

A nine-year-old girl who was shot in the head in north Minneapolis earlier this month has died of her injuries, family members said Thursday. Trinity Ottoson-Smith had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly two weeks.

A St. Paul man has been formally charged in connection to the shooting outside a downtown Minneapolis nightclub that killed two people and wounded several others. Jawan Contrail Carroll, 24, is accused of two counts of intentional 2nd-degree murder for fatally shooting Charlie Johnson, 21, of Golden Valley, and 24-year-old Christopher Jones, 24, of Brooklyn Park.