Authorities ID man shot during suspected north Minneapolis home invasion

No arrests have been made, police said.

March 27, 2020 at 10:08AM
Gregory Turner
Gregory Turner (Marci Schmitt/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Authorities on Thursday identified the man who was fatally shot during an apparent home invasion in north Minneapolis this week.

Gregory J. Turner, 52, was shot in the chest early Monday evening in a duplex in the 1400 block of 17th Avenue N., according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office.

Police said no one has been arrested in what they say was a shooting involving people known to each other.

Another person was assaulted at the home but was not taken to the hospital, police said.

The incident began about 6:50 p.m., when police received a 911 call from a person hiding in a bathroom because someone had broken in, according to emergency dispatch audio.

Soon afterward, a neighbor 911 caller reported that they had seen a woman running out of the house calling for help, then heard a gunshot from inside the property, according to the scanner audio.

Officers arrived to find a man dead inside the home.

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