Several people reported shot, as many as 4 dead, in Minneapolis


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  • Friday, 31 May 2024

(Reuters) -Several people were struck by gunfire that killed as many as four, including a police officer and a suspect, in Minneapolis on Thursday, local news media reported, citing law enforcement sources.

The Minneapolis Police Department said on social media that officers were "responding to an active incident" in which six people, two of them police officers, were "reported injured."

"This continues to be a fluid situation," the police department said, urging members of the public to avoid an area of the Whittier neighborhood south of downtown in Minnesota's most populous city.

The neighborhood is home to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

No further official details were immediately available. Police initially reported the incident at about 6:15 p.m. Central time (2315 GMT).

Minneapolis television station KMSP, a Fox broadcast affiliate, reported that six people had been shot, including two police officers and four civilians, and that one officer and two other people were dead. The station cited unnamed law enforcement sources.

CBS affiliate WCCO-TV said the suspected shooter was also killed and a second police officer was critically wounded.

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that a 28-year-old police officer was killed and another was listed in critical condition after an exchange of gunfire with the suspect. It said four other people were said to have been struck by gunshots in an area around an apartment building in the Whittier neighborhood.

The newspaper said the bloodshed would mark the first Minneapolis police officer shot and killed in the line of duty in more than 20 years.

ABC affiliate KSTP reported one officer was dead and another hospitalized, while multiple civilians were wounded by gunfire.

(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles and Daniel Trotta in Carlsbad, California; Editing by Christopher Cushing and William Mallard)

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