Minneapolis, shooting death
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Joshua Jones, 37, entered guilty pleas on two counts of second-degree murder Wednesday, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office.
A 17-year-old was seriously injured in a shooting Tuesday evening, Minneapolis police said. Officers responded to the shooting around 7:20 p.m. on the 600 block of Dowling Avenue North. There, they found a 17-year-old with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was brought to the hospital.
Minneapolis police investigate a domestic shooting that left a brother and sister dead and their mother wounded.
A neighbor heard “cries for help” after a barrage of gunfire ripped through a Minnesota park and discovered 11-year-old Amir Lamar Atkins suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. “In a moment of crisis, his older brother’s love shone through as he carried Amir, seeking help,” family said in a GoFundMe.
Moments after being pulled over on Tuesday night, Hennepin County deputies say a driver appears to have used a gun to take his own life.
The two dead in the shooting were brother and sister, Chief Brian O’Hara said in the release. The injured woman was transported to HCMC for treatment.
Police, while investigating, found a man injured on the 4500 block of Lyndale Avenue North. Investigators say he had driven himself to that area after he was shot. The man was taken to the hospital with a "potentially life-threatening" injury, according to police.
Two separate incidents Monday night and Tuesday morning left two officers injured and two people dead in Minneapolis. Police say one incident Monday night resulted in two officers being treated at a hospital,