Authorities ID man fatally shot, left at HCMC

November 20, 2018 at 2:19AM
Johnnie C. Fenn Jr.
Johnnie C. Fenn Jr. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Authorities on Monday identified a man who was fatally shot and dropped off at a Minneapolis hospital.

Johnnie C. Fenn Jr., 38, of Troy, Ala., was shot multiple times on Wednesday and died that night at HCMC, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office.

Detectives have received information suggesting that the shooting may have occurred in an area bounded by Dowling Avenue to the south, Fremont Avenue to the east and 42nd Avenue to the north.

They also determined that Fenn was in a vehicle with at least two other men when he was shot, according to court filings.

One of the car's occupants, a 39-year-old man, was arrested Saturday and booked into the county jail on suspicion of murder, records show. A homicide detective petitioned the court to keep the man jailed past the 36-hour holding period, as police tried to determine whether he "or the other individual in the car with the victim at the time ... pulled the trigger."

Paul Walsh • 612-673-4482

Libor Jany • 612-673-4064

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.

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