The 19-year-old man fatally shot over the weekend in Minneapolis was identified Monday by his mother as her son whose arrival from Ethiopia as a toddler marked a breakthrough in international adoption.
Connor Yoseph Green of Minneapolis was the man who was shot Saturday morning while in his car in the 4700 block of N. Lyndale Avenue, Diane Rupert said.
Green was dropping off a friend at his home late in the morning when the gunfire erupted, Rupert said. A car he had just bought crashed seconds after the shooting, and the friend provided CPR until emergency responders arrived, she said.
Green died at HCMC that same day, police said. There have been no arrests made in connection with the shooting that brought newly sworn-in Police Chief Brian O'Hara to the scene.
"We believe a second vehicle pulled up and fired multiple rounds" at the victim's car, said O'Hara, who was alerted by the ShotSpotter app to more than a dozen shots being fired. "It's absolutely outrageous."
Rupert said Green was adopted in April 2004 as a 14-month-old through the Ethiopia Adoption Program, a pilot project of Children's Home Society and Family Services in St. Paul.
His adoption and one other at the same time were the first through the program for Minnesota families. At the time, Minnesota was one of four states — along with Indiana, Massachusetts and Washington — newly licensed by the Ethiopian government for adoption, according to the U.S. State Department.
Connor Green's older brother, Drew, joined the family from South Korea, also through adoption.
