Minneapolis, MN
Man charged with shooting outside Minneapolis mosque amid drug confrontation
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Court records say a 68-year-old Shakopee man under investigation for narcotics is now facing charges for shooting a man outside a Minneapolis mosque after being confronted about selling drugs.
What happened?
The shooting happened on Aug. 19 around 5:45 p.m. near Masjid An-Nur Mosque, located on the 1700 block of Lyndale Avenue North in Minneapolis.
A 75-year-old man had just left evening prayer with a friend when they saw what appeared to be a drug deal happening nearby. Charges say the man approached the large SUV and told the driver he couldn’t sell drugs there, and the two started exchanging words.
The driver started to leave, but the complaint claims he made a U-turn and fired multiple shots at the two men.
When police arrived at the scene, they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to his arms and shoulders. He was then transported to the hospital for his injuries. The criminal complaint did not provide an update on the man’s condition.
How did the police make an arrest?
During the investigation, authorities learned that 68-year-old Yancy Hall, who was later identified as the driver, was being looked into by police as part of a narcotics investigation.
Charges claim he drove a large white SUV that had been equipped with a tracker from an earlier search warrant. Authorities reviewed the data, which police say placed the vehicle at the shooting location when it occurred before leaving the area.
Court records say the vehicle was also captured on various surveillance cameras in the area.
What did the suspect say?
While speaking with investigators, police say Hall confessed to shooting the victim. He claims he “sells dope” in that area, and the man had approached him, saying he couldn’t sell drugs there, charges allege.
Hall said that once he started to drive away, he claimed to hear the victim say, “You come back here, I’m gonna kill your motherf—— ass,” so he turned around and started shooting, charges allege.
What’s next?
Hall was charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and an additional count of drive-by shooting toward a person.
The criminal complaint did not explain what led authorities to start investigating Hall for narcotics or how long he had been under investigation leading up to the shooting.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday afternoon and remains in custody at the Hennepin County Jail.
TWIN CITIES, MN — The two-mile-long sheen spotted on the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities metro earlier this week was identified Friday as a lubricant used in the hydraulic system at the Coon Rapids Dam.
The lubricant is classified as “suitable for incidental food contact,” meaning it can come into contact with food and not cause harm, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) told Patch. “Drinking water supplies remain safe.”
About 30 gallons of lubricant spilled into the river Tuesday when a valve malfunctioned during the adjustment of a dam gate, according to Three Rivers Park District, which operates the dam.
Crews deployed booms this week to divert the sheen away from city water intakes in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The cities also temporarily closed their water treatment facilities intakes as a precaution, MPR News reported.
The Fridley Fire Department first reported a sheen on the river at about 1 p.m. Tuesday. The sheen was under the Highway 610 Bridge in Coon Rapids and traveled downstream, officials said.
At about 8:10 a.m. Wednesday morning, a smaller sheen was reported near the west shore of the river near West Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park, according to authorities.
“Additional drinking water samples have been taken and are being processed, but we do not expect them to indicate a concern for the safety of drinking water,” the MPCA said.
A three-judge panel has agreed to hear an appeal from the city of Minneapolis in the defamation lawsuit against police Chief Brian O’Hara.
Former police officer Tyler Timberlake sued O’Hara and the city last year alleging the chief defamed and wrongfully fired him. Timberlake was let go after details surfaced about a use-of-force incident he was involved in at a previous job.
The city says O’Hara is protected under a concept called absolute privilege because he made his statements in his official capacity as chief.
District court Judge Karen Janisch wasn’t convinced. In a ruling issued in July, Janisch said O’Hara is not an elected official and denied the city’s request to dismiss the suit on those grounds.
Written arguments are due next month.
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A burgeoning Minneapolis had just incorporated as a city in 1867 when the first edition of the Minneapolis Tribune rolled off the presses. The new broadsheet began with an apology.
“The lines being down most all day yesterday, we are without the greater part of our dispatches,” the newspaper reported atop its front page. “No one can regret this accident more than ourselves.”
It was (mostly) all up from there. As the company marks a new era as the Minnesota Star Tribune, it was the perfect time to tackle a question about its history. Curious Minnesota superfan Sharon Carlson asked the Strib’s reader-powered reporting project: “How did the Star Tribune get its start?”
Carlson, who lives in Andover, remembers getting angry as a kid because her parents would read the paper “all day long” on Sundays. She now does the same thing, and thinks of the newspaper as “a rare form of education and entertainment.”
There isn’t one origin story, but several. The Minnesota Star Tribune is the result of many newspaper mergers over the decades. Its primary forbears are the Tribune, the Minneapolis Journal (founded in 1878) and the Minneapolis Star (founded in 1920).
From the early days covering a plague of locusts to the “romance” of Minneapolis’ Newspaper Row, these papers bore witness to the biggest events in Minnesota history.
Minneapolis was home to about 7,000 people when the Tribune launched. The streets were unpaved, the sidewalks were wood planks, and there was “no fire department, no sanitary system, no trained nurses, no city water supply,” wrote former editor Bradley L. Morison in “Sunlight on Your Doorstep: The Minneapolis Tribune’s First Hundred Years.”
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