A man was critically injured early Friday after a carjacking turned violent in Minneapolis, and St. Paul police arrested a suspect after the car crashed into a tree in the Frogtown neighborhood.
Suspect arrested, man critically injured in shooting during carjacking in Minneapolis
The suspect was arrested in St. Paul and booked into jail.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
July 28, 2024 at 1:06AM
Reports of the shooting began just before 2 a.m. Friday, Minneapolis police Sgt. Garrett Parten said. Officers responded to the 200 block of Oak Grove Street, where they found a man with life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Police helped the man until emergency workers arrived and rushed him to HCMC in downtown Minneapolis.
“Preliminary information indicates that the male was inside a vehicle when an individual removed him from the vehicle and took it,” Parten said, according to a news release. ”While the vehicle was being taken, shots were fired and he was struck.”
According to an incident report, St. Paul officers found the victim’s vehicle at about 3 a.m. crashed against a tree in the 800 block of Van Buren Avenue with two people inside. They arrested the driver, a 37-year-old Minneapolis man, and took him into custody on suspicion of felony fleeing, fifth-degree drugs, criminal vehicular operation, drunken driving and an Anoka County warrant for third-degree burglary.
A Minneapolis police investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
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