Two people were shot and killed at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis on Sunday afternoon and a third person was injured, marking three shooting deaths over the weekend at homeless encampments.
On Sunday, two men were killed and a woman was wounded at an encampment near Snelling Avenue just east of Hiawatha Avenue, according to Fox 9.
Early Saturday morning at an encampment near E. 21st Street and 15th Avenue S., a man was fatally shot and two men were injured, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.
O’Hara gave the following details about the Saturday shooting:
Shortly before 5 a.m. officers were called to the homeless camp on reports of a shooting, he said. When officers arrived, they found three men had been shot. One man was “lifeless,” he said. Officers performed CPR on all three men until they were taken to the hospital, he said.
One man died. The other two were in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, he said.
Early information indicates that between 4:30 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. three people approached the encampment and the shooting occurred, he said. He noted that one of the victims had a small BB gun that looked like an actual pistol, but investigators aren’t sure what role this played in the shooting.
O’Hara confirmed that a 911 caller reported sounds of automatic gunfire at the shooting scene.
He said the encampment is an ongoing issue for residents of the neighborhood and that it formed after a much larger encampment near Franklin Avenue by the underpass was dismantled.
“There is something about these encampments that causes the crime around them,” he said. “That’s just what the data shows.”
O’Hara said 13% percent of all crime in the 3rd precinct happens within 500 feet of an encampment and that 19% of all gun violence occurs within 500 feet of one.
“We know that 23% of all shooting victims this year have been within 500 feet of an encampment,” he said, adding later that encampments were not “humane” places for people to be.
Last month, two men were killed during shootings at encampments.
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