Police: 1 shot in south Minneapolis homeless encampment is 5th victim in area within the last month
Minneapolis police are once again investigating a shooting in close proximity to the homeless encampment on the 2900 block of Blaisdell Avenue.
Officers responded to a shooting at the encampment around 11:19 a.m. There, they found a man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. He was brought to a nearby hospital.
Investigators believe the shooting occurred inside the encampment. Police say this is the fifth person who has been shot in or near the encampment in the last month.
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No arrests have been made.
Raymond Hoffman, the president of Park Square Condominiums — an apartment building next to the encampment — sent the following statement to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS after Tuesday’s shooting:
“It’s not about hospitality, but criminality. What does the city not understand?”