An 18-year-old man was arrested after a shooting Monday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis wounded a 14-year-old boy.

According to a statement from police, officers heard gunfire about 4:22 p.m. and found evidence of a shooting in a parking lot near N. 5th Street and Hennepin Avenue. A few minutes later, they arrested the suspect in an alley behind the police department’s First Precinct station, 19 N. 4th St., and recovered a gun.

A couple minutes after that, Metro Transit police identified the 14-year-old victim at N. 8th Street and Hennepin Avenue, where he had run and perhaps attempted to board a bus. He was taken to HCMC with a wound that was apparently not life-threatening.

Police investigators were working to establish what led up to the shooting. The suspect was booked into the Hennepin County Jail for the shooting and unrelated warrants.

“This is yet another clear example of the very real problem of the gun violence we have in this city,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in the statement. “MPD will continue its focused efforts to root out this problem that has such tragic results.”

Gun violence swelled in Minneapolis and across the nation in 2020 and 2021 but has slowed since. Criminologists have attributed the rise to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, fallout from the police murder of George Floyd and increased gun carrying.

As she was ceremonially sworn in Monday as the newest member of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Theodora Gaïtas made Socrates an honorary Minnesotan.

Gaïtas, a Minnesota native and University of Minnesota graduate who grew up in Greece, told those assembled at the Minnesota Historical Center that they all had brought her to this moment. She drew on her heritage, calling it philia, the Greek word for loving friendship. In a more Minnesota vein, she said that good people make good law and that the good people of the state would continue to guide her career.

Gaïtas’ appointment capped what Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan called “an extraordinary moment of transition” for the state’s highest court, with three new justices joining in the last year.

Here’s four things to know about Gaïtas, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in April and officially started in her new role on Aug. 1.

Gaïtas spent 15 years as an appellate criminal public defender before Gov. Mark Dayton appointed her to the Hennepin County District Court bench in 2108. Gov. Tim Walz named her to the Court of Appeals in 2020.

Court of Appeals Judge Keala Ede, who has known Gaïtas for 25 years, noted that only two Minnesota Supreme Court justices before now had ever served as a public defender. He said Gaïtas will bring a perspective that has eluded the court, as nearly half of all justices have been former prosecutors.

“Her firsthand experience with the ways our criminal justice system affects individuals, their families and our communities will assist her in rendering equal justice under the law,” Ede said.

The arrival of Gaïtas and Sarah Hennesy this year returns the Supreme Court to a 4-3 female majority. Minnesota became the first state in the country with a majority of women in 1991 that included Rosalie Wahl, the state’s first female justice, who was referenced several times Monday.

The man shot by law enforcement during a 15-hour siege in rural western Minnesota had been paranoid and acting erratically, leading his family to call authorities about his behavior, court documents say.

Kasey Paul Willander, 27, was behaving strangely Saturday afternoon while possessing a knife and a bow, his mother told a Yellow Medicine County sheriff’s deputy around 3:15 p.m., according to the search warrant from the Kandiyohi County Sheriff’s Office.

Willander left before deputies arrived at the home in Clarkfield, 15 miles south of Montevideo, the search warrant said.

Two hours later, law enforcement said it received a call that Willander had a rifle and was at another relative’s home nearby.

These relatives were forced to barricade themselves in their home as police used an aerial drone to search for Willander, who was hiding in a grove of trees on the property, the warrant said.

As deputies evacuated his relatives from the home, Willander pointed a long gun at the officers, the warrant said.

A standoff ensued. Willander boarded up windows in the home and destroyed cameras on the property, the warrant said.

Police SWAT teams surrounded the home, the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Monday. Willander again shot at the officers.