MINNEAPOLIS – Five teenage boys and three adults were injured Sunday in a shooting in south Minneapolis, the neighborhood’s second mass shooting in just nine days.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says it happened just before 6 p.m. O’Hara says Metro Transit police officers heard gunfire and responded to the scene, followed by Minneapolis police officers. They found three teenage boys suffering from leg wounds in front of Minneapolis Market
While officers were treating the victims, another injured boy approached them, who had a graze wound to his shoulder. Those four victims — all between the ages of 15-17 — were soon taken to a hospital where three adult victims soon arrived on foot. One of those victims is an 18-year-old man, and the other two are a woman and a man in their 40s.
A 16-year-old boy also showed up at Children’s Minnesota Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
O’Hara says the victims told investigators they heard gunshots but didn’t see where they came from.
At least 41 shell casings were found by police A nearby residence also sustained damage from two bullets.
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