{"id":835049,"date":"2026-09-03T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835049\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T10:28:12","slug":"3-dead-including-suspect-in-minneapolis-apartment-building-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/835049\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, including suspect, in Minneapolis apartment building shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shooting at a downtown Minneapolis apartment building on Wednesday afternoon left three dead, including the suspect, and at least six injured \u2014 among them police officers, authorities said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear how the suspect, who exchanged gunfire with responding officers, died, interim Minneapolis Police Chief Bill Peterson said at a news conference. He labeled the incident \u201cthe cowardly acts of a violent shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The name of the suspected shooter was not released by police on Wednesday, but Peterson acknowledged: \u201cWe were familiar with who this individual was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five people were wounded by gunfire, including two Minneapolis police officers. A sixth person, another officer, was not shot but suffered other injuries. All three officers are in stable condition, according to Hennepin County Medical Center.<\/p>\n

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Police responded to a report of one person shot at 15 E. Grant St. at around 4:36 p.m., but additional 911 callers reported hearing more gunfire, Peterson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quickly updated to an active shooter situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"MinneapolisA large police presence at the scene of a shooting in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday.Ellen Schmidt \/ AP<\/p>\n

Officers entered the high-rise apartment building, where they \u201cencountered victims and heard additional gunfire,\u201d Peterson said.<\/p>\n

Officers followed the sound of gunfire to an upper floor, where they encountered a haze that significantly limited their visibility, he said. It was not immediately clear what the haze was, he added. <\/p>\n

Four people with apparent gunshot wounds were taken to the hospital, where one died, and an additional person died at the scene, he said.<\/p>\n

The officers\u2019 injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, police said. One of the wounded officers was shot in the leg, and the other was struck twice in the abdomen, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said. <\/p>\n

Frey said officers acted bravely and helped get people to hospitals and others to safety, \u201call while getting shot at themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for their heroic work, the death toll would have been far higher,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Aerial video from NBC affiliate KARE of Minneapolis<\/a> showed a large police presence, including what appeared to be armored vehicles and SWAT-style officers.<\/p>\n

A KARE reporter said she spoke with multiple witnesses who saw people injured in the lobby of an apartment building. <\/p>\n

One resident said he got a call about the shooting from a friend. While he was trying to leave, the elevator stopped on a floor, and police told him he had to get out of the building. As he went through the lobby, he saw multiple people shot on the ground, KARE reported. <\/p>\n

Another witness said she was walking downstairs into the lobby when she heard gunshots and saw \u201csomebody that was down.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she \u201cjust left the building immediately, because I knew what was happening, so I didn\u2019t want to be involved in that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI heard lots of more shots. Once I was finally outside of the building, I probably heard 25 to 30 shots \u2014 because there were multiple officers who had went in and entered,\u201d the woman told a KARE reporter.<\/p>\n

Sam Turner, who owns the Nicollet Diner nearby, said his restaurant\u2019s security cameras picked up the sound of the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pulled up the camera to the restaurant and there were cop cars everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t see much, but you can hear the gunshots, about 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city government told people to avoid the multiblock area of the city that includes Loring Park. It later said that the area was secure and that there was no further threat to the public.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he was relieved that all the injured officers were expected to make a full recovery, and he thanked the first responders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re keeping all of the victims in our prayers as more information about this tragic shooting unfolds,\u201d Walz said on social media.<\/p>\n

\"MinneapolisHennepin County Medical Center said it didn’t have conditions available for the injured patients.Ellen Schmidt \/ AP<\/p>\n

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in St. Paul said it was responding to the scene.<\/p>\n

FBI Director Kash Patel also said that his agency was aware and that its personnel were responding. \u201cWe will offer any and all resources necessary to assist local authorities,\u201d Patel said on X<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting at a downtown Minneapolis apartment building on Wednesday afternoon left three dead, including the suspect, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-835049","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-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835049","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=835049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}