Three people were arrested after gunfire early Tuesday passed near police officers in the parking lot of the Fourth Precinct headquarters in north Minneapolis, with one bullet piercing the building's window, a Police Department spokesman said.
No injuries were reported among any civilians or the officers, who did not return fire, said officer Garrett Parten, a police spokesman. Residential buildings nearby were also hit by the gunfire.
Three men were arrested, and two guns were recovered, Parten said. Two of the men were caught after running from a vehicle that the officers stopped, while a third was apprehended nearby while trying to hide, according to Parten. The men's identities were not released.
The officers "heard gunfire and the sound of bullets passing by them," Parten said in a news release.
"Preliminary information indicates that an exchange of gunfire occurred between an unknown number of individuals. It is unclear if the 4th Precinct was targeted," the statement said.
Police located "numerous discharged cartridge casings" in an alley to the east of the precinct, which is located at the corner of N. Plymouth and Morgan avenues.
