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Man shot dead in north Minneapolis during standoff with FBI
A man was shot dead Thursday following a standoff with FBI agents in a north Minneapolis neighborhood.
The shooting by one of more agents occurred about noon in the 3700 block of N. Dupont Avenue and involved a SWAT unit from the FBI that was serving an arrest warrant, the agency said in a statement.
“After barricading himself for several hours, the subject was armed as he emerged from the home,” the statement read. “The subject was fatally wounded, and another individual required medical assistance. Both were transported to the hospital.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara and Sheriff Dawanna Witt were on the scene, and said the FBI arrived there about 5 a.m. Minneapolis officers were acting as backup and otherwise not involved, he said.
“This person was on social media videotaping what was happening from inside the residence live,” O’Hara said. “Clearly, from his own social media, this person was armed during this incident.”
According to a bystander video posted to Facebook from the 3700 block of N. Dupont Avenue, a sheriff’s tactical vehicle is seen parked at the home while SWAT officers positioned behind a white SUV point weapons toward the house while yelling “hands!” shortly before weapons are fired. Officers begin cordoning off the area while one says “we’ve gotta get that medic in here.”
The officers then surround someone on the ground and appear to perform CPR and then walk a crying woman to the rear of the SUV.
They then enter the house where a boom can be heard from inside. An ambulance is then let into the perimeter, and a few minutes later someone is loaded inside on a stretcher and the ambulance drives away.
Billy Bison, 54, who lives a block away on Dupont, said he woke up at 5:45 a.m. to officers calling through a bullhorn.
The street was locked down, and at 6 a.m. Bison reported seeing officers in protective gear gathered outside the front of the house behind a white SUV parked in the yard.
Around 11 a.m. Bison said he heard a single gunshot, before going outside to see a man lying dead on the ground. Officers performed CPR about 10 minutes later he said.
The woman who exited the house looked to be in distress and was yelling following the shooting before she was handcuffed, Bison said.
“She was incredibly distraught, and was screaming out someone’s name,” he said.
Bison said he regrets having become used to witnessing shootings in his area.
“It’s disappointing to myself how acclimated I’ve become to this,” Bison said. “It’s incredibly disappointing – you see somebody lose their life, and it’s not necessarily a new experience.”
Marvina Haynes, a community member who is running for Ward 4 City Council on the North Side, said she saw a woman being loaded into an ambulance while screaming that her brother had been shot and killed.
Wendy Bonine, who lives down the block, said police responding to a crime scene in the neighborhood is too familiar.
“I really wish it would stop,” she said.
Staff writer Louis Krauss contributed to this report.
The Lynx are in the hot seat.
The team lost Game 3 of the WNBA Finals series against the New York Liberty on Wednesday night 77-80, setting the stage for a decisive match at Target Center on Friday night. Fans in the arena reacted with resounding disappointment after Sabrina Ionescu sunk a three-pointer to break away from the tie game and dashed the Lynx’s chance at forcing overtime.
Before we get to the reactions, first things first: The Lynx set an attendance record, filling Target Center with 19,521 spectators for the first time in franchise history. That’s nearly 500 more than when Caitlin Clark was in town with the Indiana Fever earlier this year.
Despite leading by double digits for much of the game, the Lynx began the fourth quarter with a one-point lead over the Liberty and struggled to stay more than two or three points ahead throughout.
The Liberty took the lead with minutes to go in the fourth quarter and folks were practically despondent.
Of course, there were people who were in it solely for the spectacle. Nothing more.
The Lynx took a commanding lead early in the first quarter and ended the first half in winning position, setting a particularly jovial mood among the fanbase to start the game.
Inside Target Center, arena announcers spent a few minutes before the game harassing Lynx fans — and Liberty fans — who had not yet donned the complementary T-shirts draped over every seat.
DULUTH – The Minnesota and Wisconsin transportation departments will make upgrades to the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge in the summer of 2025, in preparation for the structure to become the premiere route between this city and Superior during reconstruction of the Blatnik Bridge.
Built in 1961, the Blatnik Bridge carries 33,000 vehicles per day along Interstate 535 and Hwy. 53. It will be entirely rebuilt, starting in 2027, with the help of $1 billion in federal funding announced earlier this year. MnDOT and WisDOT are splitting the remaining costs of the project, about $4 million each.
According to MnDOT, projects on the Bong Bridge will include spot painting, concrete surface repairs to the bridge abutments, concrete sealer on the deck, replacing rubber strip seal membranes on the main span’s joints and replacing light poles on the bridge and its points of entry. It’s expected to take two months, transportation officials said during a recent meeting at the Superior Public Library.
During this time there will be occasional lane closures, detours at the off-ramps, and for about three weeks the sidewalk path alongside the bridge will be closed.
The Bong Bridge, which crosses the St. Louis River, opened to traffic in 1985 and is the lesser-used of the two bridges. Officials said they want to keep maintenance to a minimum on the span during the Blatnik project, which is expected to take four years.
Red Wing will celebrate the grand opening of its first permanent set of pickleball courts next week with an “inaugural play” on the six courts at Colvill Park on the banks of the Mississippi, between a couple of marinas and next to the aquatic center.
Among the first to get to play on the new courts will be David Anderson, who brought pickleball to the local YMCA in 2008, before the nationwide pickleball craze took hold, and Denny Yecke, at 92 the oldest pickleball player in Red Wing.
The inaugural play begins at 11 a.m. Tuesday, with a rain date of the next day. Afterward will be food and celebration at the Colvill Park Courtyard building.
Tim Sletten, the city’s former police chief, discovered America’s fastest-growing sport a decade ago after he retired. With fellow members of the Red Wing Pickleball Group, he’d play indoors at the local YMCA or outdoors at a local school, on courts made for other sports. But they didn’t have a permanent place, so they approached the city about building one.
When a city feasibility study came up with a high cost, about $350,000, Sletten’s group got together to raise money.
The courts are even opening ahead of schedule, originally set for 2025.
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