Minneapolis, MN
Woman shot in head outside Minneapolis smoke shop, witnesses say
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A capturing exterior the Loon Smoke Store on Lyndale left a girl injured Tuesday afternoon. (FOX 9)
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A girl was damage after a witness mentioned she was shot within the head exterior the Loon Smoke Store in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
The Minneapolis Police Division says officers responded to a capturing at 4:07 p.m. close to Lyndale Avenue South and twenty fifth Avenue West, the place they discovered a girl with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
The girl had been sitting behind a car, with two others within the entrance seats, when photographs had been fired from one other car, police mentioned. The suspect car then fled.
The supervisor of the smoke store, which reopened following the capturing, advised FOX 9 a girl walked inside the shop and “Blood was popping out of her face, so I put stress on her face.”
“The bullet went by means of her head and her head was open,” the supervisor advised FOX 9. “I imagine the shooter was focusing on the motive force and she or he was hit whereas sitting within the again seat. She was respiration and speaking, however she didn’t know what had occurred.”
A person who lives throughout the road from Loon Smoke Store advised FOX 9 he heard eight photographs at 4:10 p.m. and noticed a white automotive and black automotive drive away afterward. Then he noticed the sufferer be taken away on a stretcher.
The sufferer is anticipated to outlive, police mentioned.
A house was additionally broken by gunfire.
No arrests have been made, and the incident stays beneath investigation, police mentioned.
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Minneapolis, MN
Mom charged in 2-year-old’s fentanyl overdose death at Minneapolis homeless shelter
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MINNEAPOLIS — A 37-year-old Bemidji woman is facing charges for her young daughter’s overdose death, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in Hennepin County.
The woman was charged with one count of second-degree manslaughter for the May 28 death of her 2-year-old daughter at an emergency homeless shelter near downtown Minneapolis.
Officers were dispatched the the shelter on the 100 block of Glenwood Avenue North around 7:30 p.m. on a report of a baby not breathing.
Upon arrival, first responders administered Narcan for the child and attempted CPR. She was transported to Hennepin Healthcare, where she died a short time later.
An autopsy found the child had 9.7 nanograms per milliliter of fentanyl in her system as well as norfentanyl, Narcan and caffeine. Her cause of death was determined to be acute fentanyl toxicity.
The child’s mother told investigators she had been sleeping on the ground after the child’s father left the apartment when she woke up hours later with her child on her chest unresponsive.
When asked if the girl could have consumed narcotics, the mother allegedly responded by handing police a “plate with white power on it” and said it could possibly be fentanyl, charges say. The substance field tested positive for fentanyl. She told officers she did not know when the fentanyl was placed on the plate and denied doing it herself.
Court documents say the woman told officers she had done fentanyl while at the apartment around 2 a.m. the same day her daughter died.
During a search of the apartment, officers reportedly found multiple pills and needles.
Minneapolis, MN
Family seeking answers in woman's suspicious death in Minneapolis
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Family looks for answers in Mpls woman’s death
A family is mourning and looking for answers after 57-year-old Felisha Smith was found death outside a church in Minneapolis back in July. FOX 9’s Mike Manzoni has the story.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Nearly seven weeks after a woman was found dead on the side of a Minneapolis church her family is still searching for answers.
What happened?
Felisha Smith, 57, of Minneapolis, disappeared after she signed herself out of The Estates at Chateau, a long-term care facility where she lived, her family said.
She made her way to Chicago Lake Liquors on East Lake Street, they said. The next day, July 14, a pastor at Spirit of the Lord Church found her body on the side of the building, they said.
“[She was] covered with a blanket from the neck down, pants removed,” said her daughter Shari Smith.
Shari Smith said the medical examiner’s office said her mother was sexually assaulted before she was killed. She said when she identified her body she noticed trauma on her mother’s face.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office hasn’t released a cause or manner of death.
What the family is saying
“She was a loving, kind, compassionate mother of nine children and just a wonderful, beautiful soul,”Shari Smith said.
She said her mother survived a shooting in 2014 that left her with a traumatic brain injury, and she fears someone may have taken advantage of her.
“My concerns are for community awareness, that the public be made aware that there’s someone on the loose who is doing horrific things,” Shari Smith continued.
What police are saying
Minneapolis police called the death suspicious, but didn’t elaborate.
They haven’t made any arrests.
Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis shooting: 1 dead, 2 injured after Lake Street gunfire
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Police respond to a shooting at the intersection of Lake Street and Park Avenue (FOX 9).
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Minneapolis police are investigating a fatal Lake Street shooting that left one man dead and two others injured Friday night.
What we know
Minneapolis police say officers responded to reports of gunfire at the intersection of Lake Street and Park Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Friday.
They then found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police say two other men then arrived at separate hospitals with gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening. Investigators believe they were both shot at the Lake Street and Park Avenue incident.
Investigators also believe the shooting stemmed from an argument that happened when a group gathered in the area.
Law enforcement officials are asking anyone with information on the shooting to call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
What we don’t know
Police have not released any information on possible suspects.
The identity of the man killed is expected to be released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office at a later date.
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