Minneapolis, MN
Nearly 100 bullets hit north Minneapolis home, surrounding properties, homeowner reports
Nearly 100 bullets hit north Minneapolis home, surrounding properties, homeowner reports
A family is staying in the suburbs this weekend after their north Minneapolis home was hit by bullets late Thursday night.
Jamie Wilson, speaking to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS on Saturday, said she and two of her kids were at their home on the 3700 block of Russell Ave N when the gunfire began at 11:41 p.m.
Wilson thanked her lucky stars that, because of a late meeting Thursday, she happened to be in a safe place downstairs with her 2-year-old asleep on the couch next to her, and her 12-year-old son happened to be sleeping at his dad’s.
Upstairs on Saturday, she counted at least 16 bullet holes in the wall of her son’s room. Several more hit the pillows on his bed.
“This is his front pillow, and he would have been laying right where those four bullets came through,” Wilson pointed out. “Luckily, he didn’t come home that night but if he would have, I mean, he would have been in bed by then.”
The shots created more than one close call for Wilson as the bullet trail continued into her bedroom.
In that room, she held up another pillow that a bullet appeared to penetrate and said, “My 2-year-old usually lays next to me, and it went through the top of his pillow.”
At least one bullet traveled all the way through the closet at the back of the room and into her 19-year-old daughter’s bedroom at the back of the house.
She was in the room at the time but was not hurt, Wilson said.
Outside, Wilson said officers on scene told her at least 20 rounds were found in the garage where the back window of a Jeep was smashed out. Another car in the driveway was also damaged.
“97 rounds in total that went off in 45 seconds,” Wilson said police told her before they left.
The gunfire appeared to come from the alleyway behind the home.
In total, Minneapolis Police noted damage to two addresses on the block and three vehicles.
Even though no one was hurt, the entire experience was far too close for comfort for Wilson.
“Just realizing that possibly, I put my kids in danger by getting a house where I got a house,” she said, explaining that buying this house was a big step for her as a single mom.
As of Saturday, Wilson said she’s not sure if she will return to live there, at least until there are answers about who put her family in danger and why.
“It’s the worst feeling and like, your soul is crushed,” she said with tears starting to fall. “Your reason for doing everything could have been taken away. And that, for me, is the worst thing in the world to have to feel.”
A police spokesperson on Saturday said officers are still investigating, whether the shooting could have been targeted. Investigators are also looking into a possible connection between this shooting and two other incidents, including an earlier altercation in Roseville and another report of gunfire in south Minneapolis about a half hour before the bullets hit Wilson’s home, the spokesperson confirmed.
Minneapolis, MN
‘She’s pregnant’: Trump’s immigration agent drags woman through Minneapolis street, kneels on her; video goes viral
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violently dragged a woman in Minneapolis this week, and pinned her face down on snow-filled streets as onlookers screamed. According to ICE officials, they were deployed for ‘targeted vehicle stop,’ when protesters swarmed the agents. Soon after several onlookers including journalists saw an ICE agent holding a woman on the ground. The video of the incident has now gone viral on social media with people criticising ICE for their violent methods. The Minneapolis police chief criticised federal immigration enforcement tactics after the chaotic scene.
What exactly happened?
According to the video, ICE agents handcuffed a pregnant woman, and violently pinned her to the ground by forcing her onto her stomach and pressed their body weight into her even as the crowd shouted that she was pregnant. According to ICE, the incident happened during ‘Operation Metro Surge.’
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that ICE did not appear to take steps to de-escalate the situation as bystanders shouted at agents and threw snowballs in an attempt to save the woman. “We have been training our officers for the last five years very, very intensely on de-escalation, but unfortunately that is … often not what we are seeing from other agencies in the city,” O’Hara said. O’Hara also accused ICE of stoking fear, including the practice of hiding their identities with masks and unmarked clothes.
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MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara expressed concerns about the “instability” created by the ongoing ICE operations in Minneapolis during a sit-down interview on FOX 9 All Day on Wednesday.
O’Hara on ICE operation
What they’re saying:
Speaking with FOX 9’s Amy Hockert, Chief O’Hara said the issue isn’t necessarily what the agents are doing in enforcing federal law but rather the tactics they are using to go about their business.
“I think it’s been very destabilizing for a lot of people in the community,” explained Chief O’Hara. “A significant portion of the city are immigrants and that sort of instability is something that criminals and bad actors can take advantage of and that’s been the concern.”
Identifying ICE
Big picture view:
O’Hara says he is also concerned about masked federal authorities. Often, ICE agents will be masked, in unmarked squads, and not wearing visible identification of their law enforcement status. Chief O’Hara said a bad actor posing as law enforcement is a legitimate concern, pointing to the murders of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband at the hands of a man posing as a police officer.
“Two or three months ago, the FBI put out a law enforcement bulletin saying that there were people committing violent crimes in cities around the country that were posing as ICE,” O’Hara said. “And it urged ICE to better identify themselves during law enforcement operations. And so that’s not just something I came up with – that’s something the FBI has been recommending.”
O’Hara says the department has also responded to calls from people who’ve encountered federal law enforcement and were unsure if they were legitimate.
“We have had calls from people who aren’t sure,” said O’Hara. “We’ve responded, and it turns out it was federal law enforcement. In other cases, it turns out it wasn’t. It was someone with a gun. We’ve had it happen both ways.”
The armed man and an officer who fired shots at him in Minneapolis last week have been identified by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
The BCA identified the suspect as 26-year-old Hanun Mohamed Awow and the Minneapolis police officer who fired his gun as Ariel Luna Sanchez.
Sanchez has three years of law enforcement experience and has been placed on critical incident leave, the BCA said.
Minneapolis police officer shoots at armed man, BCA investigating: MPD
According to the BCA, officers responded around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday to a 911 call from a resident on the 3000 block of Fifth Avenue South, who said a neighbor had pointed a gun at their mom.
The caller told Minneapolis police that the neighbor, later identified as Awow, had a handgun and went back into his apartment. Officers went to Awow’s apartment and he opened the door and stepped out with a gun in his hand.
Police shouted for him to drop the gun and that’s when Sanchez fired shots, the BCA says.
Awow, who was not injured, was taken into custody by police. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said last week that he believed Awow was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
BCA crime scene personnel recovered a handgun from the scene and body cameras worn by officers.
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