Police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, fatally shot an armed male who shot at them on Monday afternoon, officials say. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says the individual killed was suspected of fatally shooting two people earlier on Monday.
Officers in the Twin Cities suburb responded to the area between the 5500 and 5600 blocks of Brooklyn Boulevard around 3:55 p.m. for a report of a male waving a gun around outside retail stores, according to police. They were confronted by the male, who was armed with a handgun, when they arrived, officials said.
“Gunfire was exchanged between the subject and officers and the subject was struck by the gunfire,” police said in a news release.
The officers, who were wearing body cameras during the incident, administered first aid to the male before he was taken to the hospital, where he later died, according to officials.
Police said no officers were hit by bullets in the shooting.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.
Around 3:30 p.m. in north Minneapolis, police said a 14-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were killed in a shooting. O’Hara says the suspected shooter, a 24-year-old man, was the male involved in the shooting with Brooklyn Center officers.
“We believe that the suspect from this double murder left the scene and shortly thereafter became involved in a shooting with police in Brooklyn Center,” O’Hara said.
Police in Brooklyn Center said the intersection of Xerxes Avenue North and 56th Avenue North, near the area of the incident, would be closed down for “an extended period of time.”
The intersection is near the retail hub surrounding the former site of Brookdale Mall.
This is a developing story.
Nick Lentz
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