Four weekend homicides in Minneapolis
By Crime Watch MN, April 24, 2022
Another weekend of violence has left four people dead in Minneapolis bringing the city’s homicide total to 27 for the year.
We reported Friday that police had been dispatched that morning to the 600 block of North 1st Street after a 911 caller said he was sexually assaulted by an unknown male, according to dispatch audio.
When police arrived in the area, they indicated that they had made contact with the male who made the 911 call.
Few details were aired after that except that police had gone to a unit on the fourth floor of the building where EMS was already present and performing CPR on someone.
The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) later released a statement that the 50-year-old male in the unit had died at the scene and the death was being investigated as a homicide, number 24 for the city this year.
Police said Jhmahl Leevernon Shannon, 33, (below) had been arrested and briefly hospitalized before being booked into Hennepin County Jail. He remains in custody on probable cause murder.
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Just before noon Saturday we posted that shots had been reported near 41st and Portland Avenue. The dispatcher quickly updated the incident to a shooting.
The victim was found by police inside a vehicle near 41st and Park Avenue. At the time, police reported that the victim was still breathing with a weak pulse. Police on site indicated that they were starting CPR on the victim. It was also eventually aired that the suspect and victim were brothers.
A two-hour standoff ensued as police tried to make contact with the suspect inside a residence on the 4100 block of Portland Avenue. The suspect and a female were eventually taken into custody without incident.
Anthony Darnell Light, 42, (above) was named on dispatch as the suspected shooter.
MPD later released a statement saying that the adult male victim had died at the hospital, homicide number 25 for the city.
Booking records show Light in custody at Hennepin County Jail on probable cause murder, along with a 40-year-old female booked at the same time on probable cause aiding an offender.
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Just before midnight Saturday we reported that an off-duty officer in Uptown Minneapolis reported that shots were being fired near the 2900 block of Hennepin Avenue. The suspects were reported to be in a black Charger that fled from the scene.
About a minute later, it was aired that a victim had been found shot in the chest. Police performed CPR on the victim prior to EMS arriving (top photo).
Meanwhile, other officers had located the black Charger and aired that males were fleeing on foot from the area near 31st and Pleasant Avenue. One suspect was immediately taken into custody, and a search ensued for additional suspects.
Police later released a statement saying that the adult male victim had died and the death was being investigated as the city’s 26th homicide this year.
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We reported that a male aboard a Metro Transit bus at Lagoon Avenue and Emerson Avenue South had been stabbed in the neck after 2 a.m. Sunday and that a suspect had fled on foot from the bus.
MPD later updated that the male had died as a result of the stabbing which had stemmed from a verbal argument. They called the death homicide number 27 for the city this year. No suspects were in custody at the time of MPD’s press release.
All of the decedents in the four homicides will later be identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.
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(Top photo submitted / Minneapolis police perform CPR on Uptown shooting victim)
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