MINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis police chief is asking for the public’s help to find out who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy in the Phillips neighborhood Monday evening.
Police say officers were called to a home at East 25th Street and 11th Avenue South, a few blocks east of Children’s Minnesota, around 7:13 p.m.
The boy was found dead in the home from multiple gunshot wounds. The police assume that he was ‘with others outside his home when shots were fired’. Then he ran inside and collapsed.
Officers on scene tried unsuccessfully to save his life using CPR and a chest seal.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara called the shooting “a senseless act of gun violence.”
“We are asking anyone in the community with information to assist our investigators by providing any information they may have regarding this incident,” O’Hara said. “We must all work together to end this level of violence in our neighborhoods.”
No arrests have been made.
