New Hope police investigating Thursday homicide

UPDATE: Police have released information on this homicide. Click here to read.


New Hope police are investigating a homicide that took place on Thursday, according to a news release from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Carnell Mark Johnson Jr., 23, died at 10:11 p.m. Thursday at North Memorial Health Hospital of a gunshot wound to the chest. The medical examiner said he was shot on the 7300 block of Bass Lake Road.