{"id":143285,"date":"2026-02-23T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143285\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:26:09","slug":"brooklyn-center-police-ask-public-to-stay-away-from-city-intersection-due-to-active-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143285\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Center police ask public to stay away from city intersection due to &#8220;active investigation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, are asking the public to avoid the intersection of Xerxes Avenue North and 56th Avenue North on Monday afternoon due to what they&#8217;re calling an &#8220;active investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The intersection will be closed for &#8220;an extended period of time,&#8221; officials said at 4:23 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial footage taken in the area showed police tape and several law enforcement vehicles outside the IHOP restaurant at 5601 Xerxes Ave. N.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/inx-aerials-brooklyn-center-shooting-022326.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"inx-aerials-brooklyn-center-shooting-022326.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police vehicles and police tape surround an IHOP restaurant in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Feb. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                WCCO<\/p>\n<p>The intersection is near the retail hub surrounding the former site of Brookdale Mall. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WCCO has reached out to police for more details.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, are asking the public to avoid the intersection of Xerxes Avenue North and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9466,100,99,9,24,63,1096],"class_list":["post-143285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-center-news","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}