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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...

Minneapolis experienced a 105% increase in shootings between 2019 and 2020, according to an end-of-year report presented to the City Council last week.The city recorded 82 homicides in 2020, a 70% increase over 2019’s 48 homicides. Between 2016 and 2019, Minneapolis had an average homicide rate of 41, the report from the Minneapolis Police Department states.The number of gunshot wound victims jumped from 269 in 2019 to 551 in 2020, a one-year change of 105%. The average number of shootings reported across the previous four years was 283, the MPD said.The only violent crimes that saw a decrease in 2020...

Minneapolis is in the midst of a summertime spike in shootings. There were 26 shootings in the two-week period ending on July 13, the highest total since at least 2011. The majority the shootings have taken place in north Minneapolis, but there have also been two in south Minneapolis, and five in downtown. Barb Johnson, the city council president, called the spike in shootings "disgusting," while Mayor Betsy Hodges is calling the trend "unacceptable." KSTP’s Stephen Tellier talked to city leaders and shares what they are doing to stop gun violence, at 10 p.m. on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. It is...

Minneapolis police say a man was shot and killed Tuesday night, just blocks away from people celebrating National Night Out. According to police, the shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday on the 2600 block of Penn Avenue in North Minneapolis. This is the 32nd homicide in Minneapolis this year. At this same time last year, there had been nine homicides citywide. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak says violent crime is down compared to two years ago.

A fight between apparent gang members at the end of a slain teenage girl's funeral eclipsed fervent pleas for peace Saturday from grieving and frustrated citizens of Minneapolis' embattled North Side. "This is a baby's funeral!" community activist Al Flowers pleaded into a bullhorn as throngs of sobbing young women and shoving men poured out of New Salem Missionary Baptist Church as the fight broke out. Nearby, Alisha Neeley's casket was hustled into the back of a waiting hearse. "Seventeen years old and she can't rest in peace?" Flowers asked. "We gotta have the police here so she can rest...

Three people are dead after a shooting at a grocery store in south Minneapolis and the gunman remains on the loose. The shooting occurred around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Seward Market and Hamal Meat grocery store. The store is located on E. Franklin Avenue near 24th Street. The intersection is about 5 blocks west of Franklin and Riverside. Police are searching block by block with dogs looking for the shooter. A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew is at the scene.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder for a shooting last year, which police say was the result of a dispute over who got to sit in the front seat of a car. Porter Webb is being held at the Hennepin County jail on unrelated charges. On March 1, 2006, Minneapolis police responded to an area near 33rd Avenue and Emerson Avenue North. Witnesses reported seeing three men leaving a body there. Officers found 42-year-old Thyrone Carr, who had been killed by a gunshot that severed his aorta.

A teenager was shot in the back Friday night a block away from a peace rally in north Minneapolis that about 1,500 people attended. As the rally at 25th and Humboldt Avs. N. came to a close just before 9 p.m., a fight broke out at 25th and Girard and a 16-year-old male was shot, said police Lt. Greg Reinhardt. The boy was taken to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale with non-life-threatening injures. Organizers were distressed that the rally ended on a violent note. "For all of us, we understood that that's the reason we had come," said organizer...

MINNEAPOLIS - The founder of the New York-based Guardian Angels civilian patrol comes to Minneapolis today. Curtis Sliwa (SLEE'-wuh) will offer his services to interim police chief Tim Dolan. That follows the recent fatal shootings of a Minnetonka (minn-eh-TAHN'-kuh) man in downtown Minneapolis and of a Clemson University graduate student in the Uptown area. Sliwa's Guardian Angels last patrolled the streets of Minneapolis 20 years ago. By the early 1990's, they were gone. Sliwa hopes to have a group of Guardian Angels from Denver patrol trouble spots in Minneapolis this weekend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information from: Star Tribune/Minneapolis, http://www.startribune.com

Minneapolis Police have made two arrests in the Uptown murder of Michael Zebuhr. Police have confirmed two black males have been arrested in the two-week-old murder. Police say one of the suspects is an adult, and the other a juvenile. Zebuhr was fatally shot the evening of March 18th after he left a restaurant with his family. Zebuhr is originally of Buckhannon, West Virginia and was a Ph. D. candidate in the bioengineering program at Clemson University in South Carolina. He and his mother were in Minneapolis to visit his sister. Police sources say the two suspects will be charged...

In a burst of violence in a busy area of downtown Minneapolis, a gunman fired into a crowd late Friday night and killed a 31-year-old man who had been out with a group of friends, authorities said Saturday. Police and community leaders said the shooting of the Minnetonka man near the Block E entertainment complex was a senseless act, and the death raised questions about safety downtown and led to calls for renewed efforts to stop gun violence in the city.

Three people were arrested last night in Uptown and sources within the Minneapolis Police Department tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that investigators believe the three people may have been involved in the Uptown murder. Minneapolis Police, however, will not confirm that fact. Shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday, Minneapolis Police officers observed a vehicle fail to stop for a red light at Pillsbury and West 31st. Police activated sirens, but the vehicle failed to stop. The low speed pursuit ended when the vehicle struck another vehicle as the vehicle exited on Hiawatha and Cedar Ave. S. Loaded handguns were recovered that were...

Michael Zebuhr of Buckhannon, W.Va., was shot about 10 p.m. Saturday while returning to a car with his mother and two others from an Uptown restaurant. Zebuhr, a graduate student at Clemson University, was in Minneapolis to visit his sister with their mother. Police had made no arrests Monday, and officials said that Zebuhr was near death.

A 25-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot during a robbery Saturday in Minneapolis' Uptown area. Police said the man, whose identity was not released, and his mother, sister and a friend were walking to their car when two men approached them about 9:55 p.m. in the 3100 block of Girard Avenue S. in the Carag neighborhood. The group had just come from a restaurant at Lake Street and Hennepin Avenue. Police said the suspects demanded the mother's purse. She obliged and there was no struggle or resistance, but one suspect then shot the man, police said....

Minneapolis police are investigating an early-morning crime spree that left a man and woman walking naked near a freeway, the woman shot and another woman raped. Police spokesman Ron Reier, speaking to reporters Monday, called it the "most confusing set of circumstances" he's seen. Police were called by the State Patrol about 5:30 a.m. to investigate the report of the couple walking near Interstate 35W and Portland Ave. Reier said early information indicates the two had been robbed near the woman's home in the 1800 block of 2nd Ave. S. by a suspect or suspects. They were then carjacked there...

A six-candidate Minneapolis mayoral debate dissolved into a shouting match Wednesday between two audience members. The event, sponsored by the student senate at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College, started off with the typical opening statements but soon grew unusual. Mayor R.T. Rybak's name was misspelled on a slide, and candidate Mark Koscielski was identified on a slide as John Blackshaw, who is Rybak's campaign manager. About 200 audience members had a chance to ask questions, and topics touched on such subjects as welfare reform, financial aid for college, corporate age discrimination and prison populations. A black man went to...

Familiar faces and perennial optimists put their names into the Minneapolis mayor's race first thing today when the candidate filing period opened at City Hall. Gun shop owner Mark Koscielski paid his $20 and filed first, while veteran and former City Council member Dick Franson filed second in the first-floor elections office. "I want to be No. 1 and today I was No. 1," Koscielski said. As for his party affiliation, the candidate said, "I filed as 'Pissed Off Taxpayer.' "

Minneapolis recorded its 27th and 28th homicides on Tuesday, far ahead of the pace of 16 deaths at this time last year. The dying began early, when, at about 5 p.m., a man was fatally shot in the middle of E. Lake Street, which was filled with pedestrians and commuters.