Minneapolis police say they’re investigating two separate shootings — one of them fatal — that happened roughly an hour apart from each other late Wednesday night, adding to a spree of shootings that have happened within the past week.

According to police, two females were hurt in the first shooting, which happened in the same location as another fatal shooting on Tuesday night. Video shot by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS on Wednesday night showed a memorial still lit up with flowers and candles as police began a new investigation. Video also shows a car’s window which had been shot out.

Police say they were called to the area of Nicollet and East 19th Street around 10:30 p.m. There, officers found bullet casings – so many, in fact, that they ran out of numbered evidence markers and had to start using letters.

Roughly an hour later, officers were called to the Elliot Park neighborhood for another shooting. Officers found a man in the area of 15th and Portland Avenue South who had been shot multiple times and died at the scene.

Minneapolis police say an argument led up to that shooting, and the suspect is believed to have run away.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday identified the victim as 46-year-old Mario Ray Sparkman of Minneapolis.

Sparkman’s death marks the fifth homicide resulting from a shooting in the city within the past five days.

“This is a level of tragedy that is extremely concerning. It’s unacceptable,” said Minneapolis Police Sgt. Garrett Parten. “As you can probably hear, there are families shattered every time one of these happen.”

As of this publishing, no arrests have been made in either of Wednesday night’s shootings. If you have any information which may help police, you’re asked to contact Crime Stoppers.

Community activists explained violence comes in waves and it’s normally in cycles.

An argument spiraling into a shooting is a pattern Rev. Jerry McAfee, north Minneapolis pastor, sees too often.

“I’ve been tired of it,” he said. “This attitude is affecting young and old that the way to resolve stuff is just to pick up a gun and that’s not true.”

McAfee wants young people to have a living example of someone who’s been down that road but turned their life around to give them hope.

“If you take away hope, which is a desire to see things and things can change in my future, and you don’t see that anymore, everything is lived for the moment,” he explained.

McAfee said police can’t stop the cycle of violence alone and the lack of collaboration across the city only makes matters worse.

“From the police to the elected officials, to the residents, to the parents: everybody has a responsibility to help,” he said. “We don’t have all entities at the table creating the necessary synergy for the healing measures that we need. I really don’t think people are that concerned about it unless it hits their door.”

Timeline of shootings within the past week in Minneapolis:

• Wednesday, Aug. 28: Two people were injured in their car while in the city’s Ventura Village neighborhood on the 1500 block of Franklin Avenue East.
• Friday, Aug. 30: A man died, and two others were injured around 11:30 p.m. in the area of Lake Street and Park Avenue.
• Saturday, Aug. 31: A man was injured on the 700 block of 16th Street East around 1:15 a.m. His injury was considered to be non-life threatening.
• Saturday, Aug. 31: A Corcoran man died, and another man was injured in the city’s Whittier neighborhood. Police said that shooting happened around 10:45 p.m. on the 2900 block of Grand Avenue South.
• Monday, Sept. 2: A 52-year-old man was fatally shot in the Phillips neighborhood on the 13th Avenue South near East Lake Street just after 3 a.m.
• Monday, Sept. 2: A man was injured in the city’s Central neighborhood on the 3200 block of 2nd Avenue South around 10:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, Sept. 3: A man died in the Stevens Square neighborhood around 7 p.m. Police said that incident happened on 19th Street East between First and Nicollet avenues.

In addition to the shootings, Minneapolis police are also investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash that happened Monday evening on the 2400 block of Washington Avenue North around 5:30 p.m. Police say they were able to arrest the driver.