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South Minneapolis residents rattled by encampment violence
Mpls homeless encampment shootings has neighbors rattled
After three shootings near homeless encampments in Minneapolis left two men dead, neighbors in the community are shaken up. FOX 9’s Mike Manzoni has the latest.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A day after three shootings near homeless encampments in South Minneapolis left two men dead, residents in the area are fed up.
The spate of shootings, which happened in the Third Precinct, started early Wednesday morning and continued until about 7 o’clock that night. The first shooting, near 17th Avenue South and East 26th Street, left a man dead and sent another to the hospital.
Less than 12 hours later, another shooting, also near an encampment near Bloomington Avenue and East 25th Street, left a man dead. A third shooting a couple of hours later, along 17th Avenue South, injured a man.
“We scared our family, we scared our neighborhood, we scared my kids,” said Ismail Hussain, who lives near one of the encampments.
Hussain, who has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years, spent hundreds of dollars to outfit the exterior of his house with seven surveillance cameras.
But the cameras haven’t deterred crime. On Sept. 1, thieves smashed his car window and stole the vehicle.
“They make the hoodie and mask,” he said. “So, they broke the window, going inside, and in five minutes they took the car.”
In 2024, 19 percent of all gun violence in the Third Precinct happened within 500 feet of an encampment, according to police. During that same time frame, 13 percent of violent crime citywide happened within a block of an encampment, police said.