Minneapolis police say they’re investigating a shooting that left one person dead and five others injured in a shooting on the city’s south side.

According to police, offices were called to Franklin Avenue South between 16th and 17th Avenues South around 11:30 p.m. Monday for a report of a shooting.

When officers arrived, they found six people injured by gunfire. Multiple squads were brought in to help with what police said was an unruly crowd made of at least 20 people.

One of the victims, identified by police as a woman, died at Hennepin Healthcare. She is expected to be identified at a later time.

Police add a man with potentially life-threatening injuries, as well as two men and two women – all four with apparent non-life-threatening injuries – were taken to the hospital.

When asked, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara characterized the incident as a “mass shooting.”

“There are unhoused individuals who are sleeping underneath the bridge at that location. However, it is unknown what relationship the people shot, the people involved with the shooting, have with the encampment,” O’Hara added.

Although police are still working to figure out what led up to the shooting, officers say a gun was recovered and the shooting happened near a small encampment.

“I don’t even know how likely it would be that that gun was involved, but it’s present there way too often,” O’Hara continued. “There are guns that are present with people who shouldn’t have them. So much of the community violence that we see, not just here, but in other cities starts over complete nonsense.”

Minneapolis police called in law enforcement from multiple precincts, as well as University of Minnesota and Metro Transit Police.

So far, Minneapolis police say one man has been arrested for obstruction and unrelated warrants. No word on if that man is also in custody for pulling the trigger.

Anyone with information is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Minneapolis Police have been keeping a close eye on six other encampments elsewhere in the city. According to O’Hara, there have been 28 aggravated assaults, 71 shot spotter activations or reports of shots fired, and eight shootings near those six encampments so far this year. Two of those shootings were ruled homicides.

“I would say if anyone is considering staying at one of these homeless encampments thinking it’s a safe place to stay, it’s simply just not,” said O’Hara. “We know very well the police are not the answer to the unhoused problem. We’re not going to arrest our way out of it but we need the area to be safe to those in the community that live there.”