A man was found shot dead in a car outside a north Minneapolis apartment building Saturday night in the city’s first homicide in two months, authorities said.
Police responding to reported gunfire around 10:20 p.m. found the man in the 2000 block of West River Road North, Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement.
The man, who was in his 20s, was in a car that had crashed into the garage entrance of the building, O’Hara said.
His name was not released, and no arrests had been made as of Sunday morning.
“It is very concerning for a shooting death to occur just outside of a large apartment building that had many occupants present at the time of the shooting,” O’Hara said.
“We are asking anyone with information about this killing to share that information with our investigators. We must all stand up against this kind of violence.”
The city’s last homicide occurred Feb. 15 when a Minneapolis man punched a St. Paul man during a dispute outside a Lyndale Avenue tobacco shop. Clay Anderson, 47, died days later from his injuries.
