Parents searching for answers after 19-year-old daughter killed in Minneapolis

Parents of a 19-year-old homicide victim say they won’t have closure until the shooter responsible for killing her is arrested.

Vanessa Jensen was shot and killed early Saturday morning in Minneapolis.

“She touched so many lives in the short time she was here,” said Rachel Jensen, Vanessa’s mother, while surrounded by friends and family at a celebration of her life.

“It [has to] stop,” Rachel Jensen said about the violence. “These poor babies are losing their lives senselessly. Just so senselessly.”

3 dead in separate shootings early Saturday morning in Minneapolis

According to police, at 1:37 a.m., officers were notified that a gunshot wound victim had shown up at North Memorial Medical Center. Officers responded to the hospital to speak to the victim. Upon arrival, they were advised that the woman victim had died from her injuries. Investigators later found the shooting scene on the 2200 block of Second Avenue North.

Vanessa Jensen was one of three shooting victims reported within a half-hour Saturday morning in Minneapolis. Her parents said she was in Minneapolis to "watch a car show" and was out with a big group of drivers when she was shot.

Police say one of the other shooting victims was hit by a stray bullet near where hot rodders were driving recklessly and spinning around underneath the Hiawatha Avenue bridge on Lake Street.

Vanessa Jensen’s parents say no one has been arrested in her case.

“I need closure. I need closure and I need them put away for what they did to my family,” Rachel Jensen said about those responsible for the shooting.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family.