[STARTRIBUNE] The shock of a mass shooting in Uptown that left one man dead and 11 other people maimed had barely subsided Monday when multiple shootings elsewhere in the city swelled the number oonef casualties.On Monday, the day three separate afternoon shootings on the North Side left nine people injured, Mayor Jacob Frey announced details behind a multiagency effort to quell the bloodshed that has persisted over the past several weeks.
Joining the Minneapolis Police Department will be virtually every law enforcement agency within reach: the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Metro Transit police, and federal authorities from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI and the Secret Service, according to the mayor.
"The violence and lawlessness that we’ve seen the last few days is not acceptable in any form," Frey said. "Residents, businesses and all that choose to be in Minneapolis for any reason deserve to feel safe."
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo declined to reveal how the other agencies will interact with his department, but he said it would include being a visible presence as well as providing intelligence.
Arradondo, the city’s first black police chief, made a point to remind the public that many of the gunshot victims "are members of the African-American community ... young men. Their lives are not disposable. This cannot become our new normal."
Police say 111 people have been shot in the four weeks since George Floyd was killed in an encounter with four Minneapolis coppers, setting up widespread civil unrest. Arradondo said he does not believe the Uptown shooting had any connection to Floyd’s death.
In the meantime, police front man John Elder said "we are making good headway" in the Uptown investigation.
There was no preliminary word on a motive or even how many shooters were involved in sparking the chaos while the area was bustling with activity now that bars and restaurants have loosened customer limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday afternoon saw police at three scenes of gunfire. Shortly after 2:30 p.m., ShotSpotter technology recorded the sound of 41 rounds at N. 16th and Newton avenues, police said. One person went to the hospital at death's door, while three others came away with noncritical wounds. Then shortly after 4 p.m., four people suffered gunshot wounds in a commercial stretch in the 600 block of W. Broadway. Another person was injured by gunfire shortly before 7 p.m. at 25th Ave and 4th Street.
Two people were also stabbed, one fatally, in the 500 block of Nicollet downtown Monday afternoon.
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