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Plymouth police disperse 'several hundred' gathered at Medicine Lake Park
PLYMOUTH, Minn. (FOX 9) - Plymouth police say they dispersed a gathering of "several hundred" people at West Medicine Lake Park Friday night. Authorities say deputies from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office also assisted in clearing the park, which law enforcement responded to around 10 p.m. Pepper spray was reportedly...
Minneapolis incident report details chaotic, quickly moving shooting scene
Reports released by the city of Minneapolis shed some light on when and how the shootings that injured four people and left three people dead including police officer Jamal Mitchell occurred on May 30 in south Minneapolis. According to the incident detail report issued about the shooting, more than 150...
Wife of slain Burnsville police officer reflects on Minneapolis officer Jamal Mitchell's death
MINNEAPOLIS — The community's support for fallen Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell is in full bloom.One week ago, Mitchell was killed in the Whittier neighborhood. Mitchell was shot without warning trying to help a man in the street.Ever since that fateful day, community members have been showing support through fundraisers and letters of encouragement left on his squad car outside of Minneapolis Police Department 5th Precinct.Among those people is Cindy Elmstrand-Castruita, who knows what his family is going through."We haven't had time to heal," she said.A little more than three months ago, her life changed forever, and it was her...
21-year-old shot near the University of Minnesota, police investigating
MINNEAPOLIS — A 21-year-old was shot near Washing Avenue SE and Walnut Avenue SE just before 7 p.m. Saturday night, say police. The University of Minnesota police department responded to the scene and found the 18-year-old. He had non-life threatening injuries. Police say that four suspects in their teens and 20s were seen fleeing the scene. They were in a gray Dodge Charger. Police are looking for the car. The UMPD police are investigating the shooting. Anyone who may have information is asked to call (612) 624-COPS.
Minnesota TSA agent stops Massachusetts man with 10 cans of SPAM, "all the special flavors"
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A Massachusetts man is going viral on TikTok after TSA pulled him aside at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International for having a carry-on full of SPAM. "I'm so embarrassed," Joel Libed said in the video, as a bewildered TSA agent pulled out 10 cans of SPAM. The agent...
Neighbors recall chaos during Minneapolis mass shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - As the community prepares for a solemn goodbye to Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell next week, those who witnessed and survived the tragic events are picking up the pieces and trying to return to some sense of normalcy – including many living in the Blaisdell Avenue apartment building where the initial double shooting occurred, and where a frantic search for a possible second gunman unfolded.
Man was on the run for gun charge when he fatally shot Minneapolis officer
Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed was not allowed to have a gun. He’d done time in federal prison for possessing one illegally. Two years after his release, he was allegedly caught with a firearm again, and there was a warrant out for his arrest. And yet, on May 30, investigators say there was a gun in his hand once again, and this time he used it to kill a Minneapolis police officer who was trying to help him.
Driver crashes after being shot near Minneapolis' Abbott-Northwestern Hospital
MINNEAPOLIS — A man is recovering after he was shot while driving in south Minneapolis on Thursday evening.Police say someone opened fire on the man's vehicle at about 6:15 p.m. on Columbus Avenue South near East 28th Street, just west of Abbott-Northwestern Hospital.The man, who's said to be in his 20s, drove south a couple of blocks before crashing near Lake Street and Chicago Avenue, about a block east of Midtown Global Market.The victim is expected to survive, and police say no arrests have been made.
Five of seven defendants in Feeding Our Future fraud trial guilty of a mix of charges, two defendants acquitted
The verdicts are in for the seven defendants in the Feeding Our Future fraud trial at the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Minneapolis and it’s a split verdict for most of the defendants. Two were fully acquitted.
Man pleads guilty in Brooklyn Park drunk driving crash that killed Lamont Cunningham, 50
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis man pleaded guilty on Thursday morning after killing his passenger in an alcohol-related crash in March.Lamoind Cunningham, 44, was charged in April with criminal vehicular homicide in connection to the crash on March 30 that killed 50-year-old Lamont Cunningham, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.Police say they found his vehicle crumpled against a tree on a residential street in Brooklyn Park near Interstate 94. Firefighters extricated both men from the vehicle. They were both hospitalized, with Lamont Cunningham eventually dying from his injuries.Court documents state one of the firefighters noticed Lamoind Cunningham smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech. He later confessed to drinking beers earlier in the day before consuming "approximately one-fifth of a bottle of Hennessy" at his cousin's home.Lamoind Cunningham also told investigators he thought he blacked out before the crash, according to court documents.His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 22.
Woman attacked, robbed and carjacked midday at Bde Maka Ska
MINNEAPOLIS — Shannah Henderson said she was walking from her parked car along Lagoon Avenue to Bde Maka Ska to go for just before 1 p.m. Sunday.She was walking to the crosswalk at West Lake Street and East Bde Maka Ska Drive when she spotted two men, Henderson said."I turned to notice two guys were following me, one very close behind me wearing a bandana on his face and it startled me," said Henderson.Shortly after, Henderson said they attacked. "It was very terrifying," said Henderson. "I was yelling for help. 'Help me! Help me!'"One of the suspects got away with Henderson's...
Passenger hurt after pickup hauling camper, boat rolls into ditch on I-94
MONTICELLO — A passenger from Brooklyn Park was injured Thursday morning when the pickup truck she was riding in, along with the camper and boat it was towing, rolled into a ditch on Interstate 94 in Monticello Township. According to a report from the Minnesota State Patrol, the 2006 GMC Sierra was traveling westbound on I-94 and was pulling a fifth-wheel camper as well as a boat when it lost control near mile marker 192 and entered the north-side ditch, causing all three of the...
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