One shot, one arrested in Brooklyn Park

The victim is expected to survive, and one man was charged with second-degree assault.

August 29, 2020 at 10:10PM

A suspect is in custody after one person was injured in a shooting early Saturday in Brooklyn Park.

Officers responded at 1:22 a.m. to a report of a shooting at a home in the 7700 block of Georgia Avenue, police said in a news release. Officers surrounded the home and a number of people emerged, including one with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, police said. Minnesota State Patrol officers in a helicopter found two people who had fled the scene with a handgun and ammunition. One man was arrested.

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office assisted in the investigation.

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Katy Read writes for the Star Tribune's Inspired section. She previously covered Carver County and western Hennepin County as well as aging, workplace issues and other topics since she began at the paper in 2011. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, La., and the Duluth News-Tribune and spent 15 years as a freelance writer for national and regional magazines.

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