Minneapolis, MN
Man found fatally shot inside Minneapolis home which caught fire hours later
Bystanders on the scene of a deadly taking pictures on the 2700 block of fifteenth Ave S Friday night time.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (FOX 9) – Minneapolis police are investigating the dying of a person who was discovered fatally shot inside a house Friday night time simply hours earlier than the house went up in flames.
Officers responded to a report of a taking pictures at 11:25 p.m. on the 2700 block of fifteenth Avenue South. When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered a person with a deadly gunshot wound contained in the residence.
Police stated the person received into an altercation with somebody he knew, which escalated into the deadly taking pictures. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will launch the person’s identification after the post-mortem.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing. That is the 72 murder in Minneapolis this yr.
Hours after the taking pictures, the Minneapolis Hearth Division additionally responded to a hearth on the similar residence within the Midtown Phillips neighborhood round 6:30 a.m. Saturday. When crews arrived on the scene, they discovered a 2-and-a-half-story residence in flames.
Minneapolis firefighters on the scene of a fireplace left a house severely broken. (FOX 9)
Nobody was injured within the hearth, however the home was deemed uninhabitable.
The Minneapolis Police confirmed with FOX 9 that the murder and the fireplace occurred on the similar tackle. Any connection between the 2 incidents is at present unknown.