MINNEAPOLIS – Davis Moturi said he was doing yard work outside his south Minneapolis home Wednesday afternoon when his neighbor shot him.
Moturi is now at Hennepin Healthcare with a bullet in his spine. He doesn’t know when he will leave the hospital and doesn’t know if or how the bullet will be removed.
Minneapolis police say there is “limited information available” about the shooting and police are still investigating what led up to it. WCCO is not naming the person because no formal charges have been filed.
It all stems from a problem neighbor, Moturi said. Those problems started when he moved to his home in Lyndale a little more than a year ago.
“Saying like, ‘Hey, if you touch that tree, things will happen to you,’” Moturi said.
Not long after he moved in, Moturi said the man began making threats and racist comments. The neighbor was caught on tape calling Moturi “ghetto.”
From then on, things escalated. Moturi said his neighbor threw human waste into his mailbox, sounded an air horn and shouted late into the night.
Although police have been to his home several times, nothing has been done, Moturi said. He said a Minneapolis police captain told him she didn’t want to endanger her officers, that they were afraid of the man.
The violent attacks and threats continued, from pointing knives and guns to a shovel attack, even threatening his wife.
Moturi said he had to use pepper spray to fend off the neighbor, while Moturi set up a surveillance camera to capture future incidents.
Moturi said he has contacted the police chief, the mayor, city council members and even the Ministry of Human Rights, but nothing has happened.
“Hopefully we can get something going because obviously I’ve called everyone and no one has really done much,” Moturi said.
Moturi now hopes that this attack, which could very well have cost him his life, is what it takes to finally get justice.
“Not only for me, but there are other people in the area who have been victims,” he said.
