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Man dies after being struck by light rail train after fight in downtown Minneapolis
A man is dead after falling into the path of an oncoming train after a fight on a light rail platform early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police said.
Minneapolis police, Metro Transit police and Minneapolis Fire Department personnel responded to reports of a personal injury/trapped person at the Hennepin Avenue/Warehouse District station near 5th Street and 1st Avenue around 1 a.m. Saturday, Minneapolis police said. Two men had been fighting on the platform, which resulted in the victim falling onto the tracks as a train approached and then hit him, police said preliminary information indicated. Medical personnel pronounced the man dead at the scene.
Police are still investigating. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will release the man’s name along with the cause and nature of his death.
Brooklyn Park police arrested two people Saturday in connection with an early-morning shooting that left one man dead.
Police responded to a shooting in the 7900 block of Lee Avenue North at about 4:36 a.m. Saturday, and found a man with a gunshot wound, according to a Brooklyn Park Police Department press release. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and hasn’t yet been identified.
Later Saturday, Brooklyn Park detectives arrested two suspects who are being held at the Hennepin County Jail, according to police.
“We passed three of them and we did it [in a] bipartisan [way],” said Walz, who represented southern Minnesota in Congress for a dozen years before running for governor.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz holds Matt Kucharski’s dog, Libby, a 6-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer, to give her a drink during the annual Minnesota Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener. (Anthony Souffle)
Following the event, Walz’s motorcade wound its way north and east across farm country, past combines in fields harvesting corn, to downtown Sleepy Eye, where he slipped into a crowded brewery. In many ways, the trip resembled any year for a pheasant opener, save this time the motorcade, a dozen vehicles long, stretched out the back side of a downtown Sleepy Eye alleyway.
One patron, who declined to give her name but said she grew up in Madelia and lived in New Ulm, was purchasing a six-pack of beers when she told the bartender, “Is that Walz? I don’t got time for that guy.”
Later, when Walz briefly emerged from a side room, a chorus of cheers reached him from the balcony, before he hustled out to the motorcade.
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