Minneapolis police early Thursday arrested a man they suspect of fatally stabbing another man in a Loring Park apartment building.
Minneapolis police: Man arrested after fatal stabbing at Loring Park apartment building
It is the city's 61st homicide of the year.
August 12, 2021 at 2:34PM
The death was the city's 61st homicide of the year, and the sixth in as many days.
According to police, officers were dispatched about 6:14 a.m. to a report of a stabbing at an apartment in the 300 block of Oak Grove. When they arrived they found the victim unconscious an an upper floor of the building with what appeared to be "straight edge weapon wounds" and without a pulse, police said. Officers tried to the revive the man until paramedics arrive to take him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Officers arrested a suspect at the scene; his identity hasn't been released.
It wasn't immediately clear whether a murder weapon was recovered.
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