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Officer fatally shoots woman with a gun in North Branch, Minn., chief says
An officer in North Branch, Minn., fatally shot a woman who had a gun, the police chief said early Friday.
The gunfire occurred about 9:20 p.m. Thursday north of the Twin Cities near the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Elm Street, where officers encountered a woman reported to be suicidal and intoxicated and armed with a handgun, Police Chief Dan Meyer said in a statement.
The chief said one officer fired a nonlethal pepper ball at the woman and another officer then shot her with his firearm.
Police gave immediate aid to the woman before she died at the scene, Meyer said. Her identity has yet to be released.
The chief’s statement did not explain what prompted the officers to fire at the woman.
Meyer said the incident was captured on officers’ body-worn cameras.
The officers involved have been put on standard administrative leave, the chief said.
As is routine practice, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is leading the investigation into the shooting and is expected to reveal further details in the coming days.
Since 2000, police in Minnesota have killed at least 240 people, including nine this year and 11 in the past year, according to a Star Tribune data base.
Star Tribune staff writer Jeff Hargarten contributed to this report.
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A 7-year-old boy was left with life-threatening injuries after a driver reportedly hit him and then fled the scene in north Minneapolis on Saturday night.
The boy was skateboarding near the intersection of 33rd and Russell avenues N. near Cleveland Park when he was hit by a vehicle shortly before 8 p.m., police said.
Police responding to reports of a hit-and-run rendered medical aid until the boy could be transported to Hennepin County Medical Center. No further information about his condition was available Sunday afternoon.
Police are still trying to determine what happened at the scene, according to a statement sent to the media. A vehicle description was not included in the statement. No arrests have been made.
One man has been killed and a woman was left with life-threatening injuries after a Saturday night crash on Hwy. 12, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.
A motorcycle was travelling west on the highway around 7:45 p.m., just after the Carlson Parkway entrance, near Wayzata. The Harley Davidson struck a concrete curb and both riders, a man and a woman, were ejected from the vehicle, according to a State Patrol report.
The man, who was driving the motorcycle, was killed. The woman was transported to North Memorial Hospital with non life-threatening injuries. The incident report indicates that alcohol was involved in the crash. Neither person was wearing a helmet.
The collision closed the westbound section of the highway for several hours on Saturday.
