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Police respond to a shooting that authorities said involved multiple victims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, September 2, 2026, in a still image from an aerial video [ABC affiliate KSTP\/Reuters]<\/p>\nPolice say suspected gunman is also dead and that several people, including three officers, were wounded.<\/p>\n
Published On 3 Sep 20263 Sep 2026<\/p>\n
At least two people have been killed and several more wounded, including three police officers, after a gunman opened fire in the United States city of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Garret Parten, a spokesman for the police, told reporters on Wednesday that the suspect has also died.<\/p>\n
He said police responded to a call about a shooting at a downtown Minneapolis apartment building just after 4:30pm local time (22:30 GMT). Officers found the victims minutes after entering the high-rise.<\/p>\n
One person died at the scene, Parten said. Four people were taken to hospital, where one later died.<\/p>\n
Also taken to hospital were three police officers, including two who were shot. All three are in stable condition, according to Hennepin County Medical Center.<\/p>\n
Police respond to a shooting that authorities said involved multiple victims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, September 2, 2026, in a still image from an aerial video [ABC affiliate KSTP\/Reuters]<\/p>\n
Parten said it was not immediately clear how the shooter died.<\/p>\n
The police have no further details on the motive behind the shooting or the condition of those injured.<\/p>\n
Video posted to social media showed police aiming weapons at an apartment building near the Minneapolis Convention Center.<\/p>\n
In a series of posts on X, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz thanked emergency services and said state officials are on the ground helping local law enforcement respond to the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrateful to law enforcement actively working to ensure the safety of our neighbors in Downtown Minneapolis this afternoon,\u201d Walz said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinnesota is praying for our first responders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Lisa Demuth said she is praying for the victims of \u201cthis heinous crime\u201d.<\/p>\n
The shooting in Minneapolis came on the same day that a shooting was reported at Westwood Hills Elementary School in the city of Waynesboro in the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n
Authorities said a 19-year-old gunman forced his way into the elementary school on Wednesday morning and shot and wounded a staff member before killing himself.<\/p>\n
The incidents follow mass shootings in the cities of Chicago, Illinois, and Trenton, New Jersey, on Sunday that left at least three people dead and 18 wounded, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say suspected gunman is also dead and that several people, including three officers, were wounded. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24],"class_list":["post-834817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}