Posted on 05/22/2021 5:38:20 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Police have taken a suspect into custody in connection with a shootout that left two people dead and eight others injured early Saturday morning in downtown Minneapolis.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, at 1:59 a.m., officers working bar close in downtown heard sounds of gunshots in the area of 300 block of North First Avenue.
Police said officers ran to the gunfire and encountered an "exceptionally chaotic scene."
Officers located several victims lying on the ground with gunshot wounds. Officers located a man deceased on the ground. As officers triaged other victims, they found another man deceased with a gunshot wound, said police.
Preliminary investigation reveals that two people were standing in a crowded area and got into a verbal confrontation. Both individuals pulled out guns and began shooting at each other.
One of the gunmen was killed in the shootout. The other suspect, identified as 23-year-old Jowan Contrail Carroll, was taken into custody early Saturday afternoon in Bloomington with the help of the Bloomington Police Department. He is being held in the Hennepin County Jail on probable cause murder. He has not been formally charged.
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Jowan is a name with a long history in the Amish community....
not!
More here...
The area has gotten so bad that some businesses were closing earlier than they used to because of the crime.
Mr. Johnson was out at a nightclub at 1:30 AM in an area that was getting so dangerous biz owners are closing early to improve the chances of their employees getting home safely.
We hammer home to young women not to do stupid things that increase their risk of being crime victims.
I’d argue the same thing applies to young men.
If Mr. Johnson had been home in bed he wouldn’t be dead now.
I am NOT blaming the victim.
I am wishing people would stop and think before they do things that put them in harm’s way.
A lot of felons from chicago end up in mpls.
I didn’t know there even WAS a police department left, in Minneapolis.
Don’t we know that!
I’ve always said that.
23-year-old Jowan Contrail Carroll
IOW, whomever named him was a conspiracy freak.
I'd like to think that much thought went into the name. But I doubt that is the case.
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