Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis police continue to search for suspect in brutal beating, death of veteran
MINNEAPOLIS — A family is asking for answers after their brother was brutally beaten on a busy downtown street as police continue searching for who did it.
Thursday evening, sitting in front of pictures of her brother James Quigley, better known as, Otis, Michelle Swanson is heartbroken.
“Jimmy had a habit of calling me on Thursday,” Swanson said.
That call hasn’t come since early May, that’s when Swanson’s life changed forever.
Two months ago, her brother went down to First Avenue for the Charlie Parr concert before getting drinks alone at Gluek’s Restaurant & Bar.
Swanson believes her brother was waiting for an Uber home to Spring Lake Park when he was assaulted.
“I’ve been told there was some type of verbal altercation, Jimmy turned away, looked back and a person jumped him,” Swanson said.
Days later, his family made the difficult decision to take him off life support. He passed just 15 minutes later.
“The day he died he was supposed to be flying out to Jacksonville, Florida, to meet with brethren for a reunion for USS Stark,” she said.
Quigley served in the Navy and was a Gulf War Veteran. A beautiful military honors service was held at Fort Snelling, where he is now buried.
His life of service didn’t end with him, as he gave the gift of life by donating his organs saving a 70-year-old and a 54-year-old.
Swanson says the last few months have been difficult and the lack of answers is agonizing.
“We need help,” Swanson said. “We need someone who knows something that happened to our brother. That’s what I can’t get over.”
For Swanson and her loved ones, the fight for justice continues for their baby brother who brought nothing but love into their lives.
Minneapolis police say no arrests have been made.
A Minneapolis City Council member said he was carjacked on the city’s south side Monday night.
Jamal Osman said the carjacking occurred near Portland Avenue and Lake Street around 8 p.m.
“I’m home now in Phillips West with my family, and I want to assure neighbors that I’m okay,” Osman said. “This incident is another reminder of the work ahead to keep all of our communities safe.”
Osman represents Ward 6, of which Portland and Lake sits right on the border. He said police “responded quickly to the incident” and thanked both Chief Brian O’Hara and Mayor Jacob Frey for checking on him after the carjacking.
According to Osman, ths suspects are minors who carried out another carjacking earlier in the evening.
“My heart goes out to them,” Osman said of the other victims. “No one should have to experience this kind of trauma in our city.”
Voters first chose Osman to represent Ward 6 in a special election in 2020. He won reelection in 2021, 2023 and just last week.
According to city data, there have been 152 carjackings so far this year. Eighteen of those have occurred in Osman’s ward. Of the city’s 13 wards, only 5 (22), 8 (19) and 9 (34) have seen more.
Citywide, carjackings are down compared to last year at this time, along with nearly all violent crime.
Last year, O’Hara touted the work his department has been doing to reduce the number of carjackings.
“We initiated a robbery response protocol where we saturate areas as soon as we can once we noticed these problems . . . and then even when we do have robbery sprees, there’s fewer robberies and carjackings reported,” O’Hara said at the time. “We also now have juvenile investigators on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week . . . because there’s certain procedures and evidence collection issues that are different for juveniles. We want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can at the time of the incident — whether it’s 3 o’clock in the morning, or 3 o’clock on a Monday afternoon — to ensure that we’re doing everything possible to build these cases as quickly as quickly as we can.”
Minneapolis, MN
The financial impact of Minneapolis vehicle break-ins, as dozens of cars vandalized in Lowry Hill
We continue pushing for answers tied to Minneapolis car break-ins.
Dozens more cars were broken into over the weekend in the Lowry Hill neighborhood. We’ve reported on similar situations earlier this year.
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Owner of Luna Glass Service, Grady Hegel, says his business has jumped because of the vandalism. Hegel says the average repair job costs $300.00. A decade ago, most of his jobs were replacing windshields — now it’s door windows and he’s had a tough time finding a supply.
“I can’t get the glass locally and I’ve looked into Milwaukee, Chicago warehouses and they don’t have it either,” Hegel said
The last few days, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has reached out to Minneapolis Police asking what they can do to prevent this crime, but they haven’t gotten back to us.
Lanes reserved exclusively for transit buses first appeared on Minneapolis streets about seven years ago as part of a pilot, but are now commonplace on some of the city’s busiest streets.
The lanes painted in red — officially called Transit Priority Lanes — allow city buses to drive in their space and theoretically improve travel times by not having to mingle with other traffic.
You’ll find them on 7th Street in downtown Minneapolis and on segments of Chicago, Hennepin and Lyndale avenues south of downtown. They have been added to a good portion of Lake Street where Metro Transit’s B-Line operates, and on parts of Hennepin and 1st avenues in northeast where the new E rapid transit line will run starting in December. And they arrived in the east metro along much of the Gold Line, the rapid transit line running from downtown St. Paul to Woodbury.
With the network of Transit Priority Lanes expanding, Drive reader Steve Brandt asked about making a turn onto a street marked with one of those bright-red-painted lanes.
“I was taught that when making a left or right turn, one should turn into the nearest lane,” he asked the Drive in an email. “When making a right turn onto a street where the nearest lane is a red bus-only lane, legally should I turn into that lane or the nearest lane to the left of that?”
Similar to interacting with bike lanes marked in green, motorists may use bus-only lanes to make a right turn at an intersection when the lane is designated with a sign permitting the movement, said Pete Hosmer, who runs A+ Driving School headquartered in White Bear Lake.
Bus lanes are painted solid red, but just like bike lanes marked in green, they will have a broken or hashed markings designating the spot where drivers can legally enter the lane to make a right turn.
Signs that say “Buses and right turn only” are often posted to let motorists know it’s fine to do so, said Matt Moseley, supervisor of driving programs at AAA Minneapolis.
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