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North Minneapolis shooting victim identified as 18-year-old Anoka man
A man found shot to death in an alley was identified Saturday as an 18-year-old from Anoka.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said Saturday that Isaiah Khalel Goodwin died from multiple gunshot wounds Thursday on the 4200 block of Queen Avenue North.
Minneapolis police found Goodwin in an alley there after reports of gunfire on the 4200 block of Penn Avenue. Investigators said in a statement that an illegal narcotics deal may have played a role before gunfire erupted.
Both men involved in the incident ran from the scene, but Goodwin collapsed in the alley and died at the scene, according to police. Police haven’t arrested anyone yet.
“Gunfire in the middle of a neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon is frustrating and unacceptable, “ Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement Thursday. “This senseless violence is tragic and unfortunate, but I am confident our investigators will work hard to determine what happened and arrest those responsible.”
Goodwin was the 58th homicide victim in Minneapolis this year, according to a Star Tribune database. There were 50 deaths by this time last year.
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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