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  • Robert Dear, shooter in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack, dies in federal custody

    The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs a decade ago died in custody over the weekend, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Robert Dear, 67, died at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Randilee Giamusso said. His death was “preliminarily linked to natural causes,” Giamusso said Tuesday, and prison officials followed advanced medical orders before he died.

    Dear’s death ends a decade-long — and ultimately unsuccessful — effort to convict him of crimes connected to the mass shooting. Although Dear had been in state or federal custody since the 2015 attack and confessed to carrying out the mass shooting, he was never convicted because he was always considered to be too mentally ill to go through the court process — that is, he was consistently found incompetent to stand trial.

    Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen said in a statement Tuesday that the victims of the shooting were denied justice in the “evil attack.”

    “All three victims and this community deserved the full measure of justice in this case, but they are now denied that possibility,” Allen said. “Their family members and loved ones have endured this horror for far too long.”

    The Bureau of Prisons declined to provide any additional information about Dear’s death and officials with the Greene County Medical Examiner’s Office did not immediately return requests for more information.

    Dear’s attorneys did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

    Dear was accused of attacking the Planned Parenthood clinic on Nov. 27, 2015. Authorities believe he intended to wage “war” on the clinic because the staff performed abortions. He arrived armed with four SKS rifles, five handguns, two more rifles, a shotgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

    Twenty-seven people who were inside the clinic at the time hid until they could be rescued by law enforcement, according to prosecutors. Dear fired 198 rounds in the attack and tried to blow up propane tanks to take out law enforcement vehicles during a five-hour standoff.

    Those killed were Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, Jennifer Markovsky, 36, and Garrett Swasey, 44, a campus police officer who responded to the clinic after hearing there was an active shooter. Another four police officers were wounded.

    The issue of Dear’s competency stalled the state’s murder case against him in 2016. Federal prosecutors brought their own case alleging firearm and civil rights violations in 2019; those proceedings also stalled due to Dear’s compromised mental state.

    A competency evaluation considers whether a criminal defendant is mentally ill or developmentally disabled, and whether that mental illness impedes the defendant’s ability to understand the court process. Rooted in the constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial, competency centers on two prongs — whether defendants have a factual and rational understanding of the proceedings, and whether defendants are able to consult with their attorneys and assist in their own defenses.

    Experts previously testified that Dear understood the facts and circumstances of his case but was still incompetent to proceed because he could not assist in his own defense.

    Dear was known for frequent outbursts in court. During a 2019 hearing, he declared himself to be a “religious zealot” who was being prosecuted in a “political kangaroo court.” In 2021, he insisted in federal court that he was competent to stand trial, shouting, “I’m not crazy.”

    In September, a federal judge started the process for Dear to be committed long-term to the mental health facility in Missouri after finding he was unlikely to be restored to competency.

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  • Mom of Annunciation mass shooting survivor on mission to strengthen gun laws

    In the aftermath of a summer of gun violence in Minnesota, the push to put limits on semi-automatic weapons here has stalled.

    One group has not given up, and those are the survivors and loved ones of those directly affected by gun violence including one of the parents of a child injured in the deadly Annunciation Catholic Church mass shooting.

    In the past six months, Minnesota has been the site of horrifying gun violence. In June, there were the execution-style murders of House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hostman and her husband Mark, and the attempted assassination of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.

    Then in August came a mass shooting in Minneapolis that killed one and injured six. The very next day there was, the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis left students Harper Moyski and Fletcher Merkel dead and more than 20 wounded. 

    Democratic Gov. Tim Walz immediately called for a special session on guns, but repeated negotiations between the governor and legislative leaders have failed to come up with a compromise all parties could support.

    There has also been a call for a constitutional amendment to limit semi-automatic weapons to be put on the ballot, but that too has seemed to sputter. 

    In September, some Annunciation parents went before a state legislative committee in a powerful, emotional plea for change. And at least one parent, Tess Rada, has become a crusader, joining Walz at town hall meetings around the state and talking to whoever will listen. 

    Rada’s third-grade daughter, Lila, survived the shooting and was physically uninjured. Rada was a guest on WCCO Sunday Morning. 

    “I don’t want any family to have to feel what I felt that day,” Rada said.

    She said she will not stop pushing for change. 

    “It seems the best way to do that is taking assault weapons off the streets, because nobody should be able to fire 116 rounds in two minutes and cause that kind of destruction,” Rada said.

    With the Legislature evenly divided, it’s unlikely further gun control laws will pass in the 2026 legislative session. Many Republicans and some Democrats think the Legislature went too far in 2023 when it passed a red flag law and tighter background checks. 

    Like many conservative Republicans, state Rep. Kristin Robbins, a candidate for governor, has opposed a constitutional amendment and any restrictions proposed by the legislature. She believes an assault weapons ban won’t work.

    “The money would go like text book aides, so it can go to a school whether the child’s in public school, private school or charter school,” Robbins said.

    While surveys show a constitutional amendment to ban assault weapons could have enough support to be approved by voters, the hurdle is getting it approved by the Minnesota Legislature to get on the ballot. With the divide in the Legislature, it seems unlikely.

    Watch WCCO Sunday Morning with Esme Murphy and Adam Del Rosso every Sunday at 6 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

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  • With medical bills growing for some Annunciation families, state fund could ease burden

    It’s been just over two months since the Annunciation school shooting and families continue navigating the unforeseen aftermath.

    Some of the families are dealing with bills and how to pay them.

    “Sometimes it just feels like a dream or a nightmare,” said Brock Safe. “This has shaken all of us to our core. We’re all going through hell, it’s tough.”

    Safe’s two daughters are students at Annunciation Catholic School.

    “My youngest, Astoria, she went through a lot. She was shot, grazed by a bullet of her forehead. She had a big piece of bullet fragment in her neck.”

    Now Safe and other families are stuck in aftermath.

    “We have a [huge] stack of bills,” said Safe.

    The bills are piling up and some of the families are struggling to pay them.

    The Minnesota Crime Victims Reimbursement Program, a program that has been around since the 70s, is available to help.

    “It’s open to anyone who’s been the victim of a violent crime,” said Rabb, the deputy director for the Office of Justice Programs within the Department of Public Safety. 

    Those crimes include homicides, assaults, kidnapping, domestic violence and mass shootings. 

    Rabb says her team arrived at the shooting soon after it happened. 

    “What was hardest was just the volume of young people. It’s a very close-knit community,” said Rabb.

    Victims have up to three years to sign up for assistance, but Rabb encourages them to sign up sooner than later.  There are caps on the amount victims can claim but include money for funeral expenses and even lost wages.

    Safe says his family is trying to move forward, but he doesn’t want people to forget the tragedy.

    “The biggest fear is when you lose someone in this situation, it’s people forgetting about them,” said Safe.  

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  • Sophia Forchas, injured in Annunciation shooting, released from hospital after 2 months


    The last student hospitalized after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting in August is going home.

    Sophia Forchas was shot in the left temple lobe during the attack that killed two students and injured 21 others on Aug. 27. As part of her recovery, she was placed in a medically induced coma and surgeons removed part of her skull to quell any brain swelling.

    Doctors have called her recovery “miraculous.”

    On Thursday morning, a white limousine picked her up at Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, where she has been in recovery.

    She then made a stop at Hennepin Healthcare, where she was greeted by dozens of doctors and nurses, some of whom treated her the day she was shot.

    With her dad and others by her side, Forchas was reunited with Ozzie the therapy dog that was with her in the hospital, and she also met with her care team, who took time to sing happy birthday.

    Forchas turns 13 years old this weekend.

    “It’s only been two months or so since this terrible event,” said Dr. Walt Galicich, a neurosurgeon with Hennepin Healthcare who helped care for Forchas. “And to see her walking around wanting to go home and go back to school is pretty amazing.”

    Galicich and others who worked with Forchas say they are pleasantly surprised by her progress, as she was nearly brain dead when she arrived at the hospital.

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    Forchas’ second stop was back to school and to Annunciation to see her classmates. Because she suffered a serious brain injury, Sophia’s recovery is far from over. 

    Note: The above video first aired on Sept. 11, 2025. This story will be updated.

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  • Jury deliberates in case of 400+ emails threatening Shoal Creek School shooting

    Shoal Creek Elementary. (File photo credit Shoal Creek Educational Foundation via Facebook)

    Closing arguments were delivered and jurors began deliberations Monday in the trial of a man accused of sending emailed threats to commit a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch.

    Lee Lor, 40, faces a single felony count of making criminal threats for an email he allegedly sent in December 2023 that prompted a police response at the campus and Lor’s arrest later that day.

    Prosecutors say the email was one of over 400 he sent over the course of several months stating he would commit a shooting at the school, which is located less than a mile from where Lor was living at the time.

    The December 2023 email stated he was going “to commit mass shootings” at the school and listed the school’s address.

    Another email he allegedly sent stated, “I’m going to murder a bunch of children,” while another read, “Children are going to die and parents can’t do nothing about it. This will put a smile on my face.”

    None of the emails Lor allegedly wrote were sent directly to the school. Instead, Lor allegedly replied to random spam emails in his inbox with nearly identical threats to shoot up Shoal Creek. One of the emails he allegedly replied to on Dec. 1 landed in the spam folder of a woman in Beverly Hills, who alerted police.

    Lor’s defense attorney, Deputy Public Defender Lucas Hirsty, has argued his client can’t be found guilty because the email was not sent directly to the school and did not specifically threaten its principal, Harmeena Omoto, who is listed in a criminal complaint as the victim in Lor’s case.

    Omoto testified last week that she felt “shock, disbelief, (and) fear” upon learning of the alleged threat, which she said prompted campus officials to raise the fences surrounding its playground areas. She also said she now stands at the school’s front gates during on-campus events that are open to the public and personally checks each person attending the events to see if they have any connection with the school.

    Hirsty argued that because the email lacked any reference to Omoto, Lor cannot be found guilty under the law of threatening her. Similar arguments led a judge to dismiss the criminal case against Lor last year, but prosecutors later refiled the criminal threats count.

    The defense attorney also argued that Lor’s practice of replying to spam emails was an outlet for his personal struggles and that he didn’t intend to threaten anyone or believe his messages were even being read.

    Deputy District Attorney Savanah Howe said Lor was aware his messages would be taken seriously because six months before sending the email regarding Shoal Creek, Lor sent similar emails claiming a shooting was imminent at his workplace, which led officers to respond to Lor’s work. Lor was not arrested at the time for the workplace-related emails, but the prosecutor said, “He knew this course of action, this conduct, would lead to the result that it did.”

    She also argued that threats made to the school in turn threaten its occupants, and in particular, its principal.

    “A threat to a group of human beings is necessarily a threat to their leader,” the prosecutor said. “The defendant should not get a free pass just because he didn’t put Principal Omoto’s name in the threat.”

    Though the prosecution isn’t required to show Lor had any intention of carrying out the shooting, prosecutors mentioned that after his arrest, Lor told officers he periodically thought about committing the shooting and how he would do it, but never could bring himself to go through with it.

    Hirsty told the jury there was no law outlining that threats to a group represent threats to its leader.

    “That’s an attempt for the government to minimize their burden because they know they don’t have the evidence to satisfy this element (of the penal code),” he said.

    He also said that after Omoto was notified of the email, she sent a message to school staff later that day indicating there was “no credible threat” to the campus, which he said showed she didn’t feel personally threatened.


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  • Three years after Hedingham mass shooting, community remembers those killed

    Monday marks three years since a mass shooting in the Hedingham neighborhood in east Raleigh.

    On Oct. 13, 2022, five people were killed and two others were injured when a teenage gunman opened fire. A trial for the accused shooter, Austin Thompson, is set for Feb. 2, 2026.

    Thompson, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, will stand trial as an adult on five counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and one count of assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer.

    Thompson will not face the death penalty if convicted, as federal law prohibits the death penalty for those who are younger than 18 at the time of their crimes.

    The 3-year mark conjured memories of all who were killed in the tragedy. An end-of-watch ceremony honored Torres on Monday at the Law Enforcement Training Center in Raleigh. Colleagues said they remembered Torres for his soul, sense of humor and insistence on running extra laps during training.

    Hedingham trial set for February 2026

    When the case goes to trial in February, Thompson’s defense team will claim that a prescription medicine contributed to the teenager’s actions in October 2022, according to a court filing in his case.

    Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said that the trial is still on track to start in February.

    “It has been continued once, and I think both the defense and the prosecution understand that the judge is ready for us to be able to move this forward, to try to bring some closure to the victims’ families and to our community,” Freeman said.

    The defense team plans to cite “diminished capacity” and “voluntary intoxication … of a prescribed medication.” Thompson’s defense team has declared the defendant has a brain injury but is competent to stand trial.

    Earlier in 2025, Thompson’s defense team asked for more time to prepare for the trial, citing the teenager’s mental state and the vast amount of evidence they need to comb through.

    As recently as last month, his defense team said they were still waiting on mental health reports.

    Five killed in Hedingham mass shooting

    On Oct. 13, 2022, police said Thompson first killed his brother, James Thompson, 16, inside their Hedingham home, then fled through the neighborhood to the nearby Neuse River Greenway, shooting another four people along the way. 

    Friends Nicole Connors, 52, and Marcille “Lynn” Gardner were shot on Sahalee Way.

    Connors died. Gardner survived but spent weeks in the hospital.

    Raleigh police officer, Gabriel Torres, 29, was on his way to work when he was shot and killed outside his home on Osprey Cove Drive.

    Mary Marshall, 34, and Susan Karnatz, 49, were shot on the greenway and both died from their injuries.

    Raleigh police officer Casey Clark was injured during the search for the shooter.

    Police found Thompson in a shed close to 6 miles away from his own home. The teenager was found with a gunshot wound to his head.

    A previous search warrant revealed what items SBI agents seized from Thompson in the shed where he hid after the shootings. The items include a shotgun, $772 in cash, multiple pistols, “projectiles,” knives, rifles, rifle magazines, shell casings, ammunition rounds and bullets.

    Search warrants also listed 11 firearms and 170 boxes of ammunition seized from Thompson’s home.

    In September, Alan Thompson, the teenager’s father, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor storing a firearm in a manner accessible to a minor. According to prosecutors, Alan Thompson told police he kept the 9-millimeter handgun in a box near his nightstand. The box, which was not locked, contained a full magazine.

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  • Mississippi Mass Shootings: Alcorn State University & Jackson State University Among 5 Homecoming Attacks, 7 Dead & 21 Injured

    A weekend of fun and festivities turned into terror and tragedy in Mississippi after multiple homecoming shootings at Jackson State University, Alcorn State University, and three high schools. The gun violence left 7 dead and 21 injured, including an expectant mother and a child.

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    Alcorn State University – 2 Wounded, 1 Dead

    Around 7 p.m. Saturday, Alcorn State University issued an active shooter alert as students, staff, alumni, and the community gathered for the annual festivities. “A shooting has been reported on campus. If you are on campus, seek shelter immediately. Do not leave your secure location until given an all clear by Campus Police,” the warning stated.

    WBLT reports gunshots began around 6:30 p.m. near the Industrial Technology Building on campus. Two victims at the scene sustained injuries. A woman identified as 29-year-old Brekyra Fisher was fatally shot.

    Police have not yet arrested any suspects. Alcorn State University Police Chief Doug Stewart turned over the case to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

    Jackson State University – 1 Child Wounded

    During Jackson State University’s homecoming Saturday night, gunshots rang out near a tailgate section at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. WJTV reports a child sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Jackson police officers rushed the young victim to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for treatment.

    Interim Jackson Police Chief and Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that Capitol police and Jackson police are investigating the shooting, which has no suspects at this time.

    Chaos at the stadium continued in the parking lot, where a fire broke out the same night. At least four cars sustained damage from the blaze. Division Fire Chief Charles Felton told WJTV that witnesses said the fire began with one car and spread to multiple others.

    Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire. Fortunately, the incident did not result in any injuries.

    Read about the even deadlier attacks on MS high school football celebrations after the jump.

    Leland High School – 4 Dead, 16 Wounded

    The deadliest Mississippi shooting this weekend took place in the small town of Leland, located in the western part of the state. Following the Leland High School homecoming football game against Charleston High School on Friday, celebrations continued into the night. According to The Guardian, four people died, and at least 16 others were shot when bullets rained down on the crowd.

    Four victims in critical condition required an emergency airlift to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, while 12 others received medical treatment at local hospitals. Mayor John Lee confirmed crowds gathered on a main street for an after-party when the attack happened around midnight.

    There are no arrests yet or suspects named in the ongoing investigation, led by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

    Heidelberg High School – 2 Dead, Including An Expectant Mother, 1 Injured

    In another small MS town about 200 miles southwest, a fourth homecoming shooting happened at Heidelberg on Friday. The town celebrated a football victory over Mize when gunshots erupted.

    Two victims died, and another was injured. WDAM reports the coroner’s office has not yet publicly identified them, but noted one of the fatalities was a pregnant woman. Authorities have not yet revealed any details about how the incident started, but they did take a person of interest into custody on Saturday morning.

    Heidelberg Police Department leads the ongoing investigation with assistance from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

    South Delta High School In Rolling Fork – 1 Injured

    Gunshots rang out at the South Delta High School football game in Rolling Fork, MS. According to WLBT, Sheriff Herbert Ceaser identified the sole victim as Quindale Wise. He was shot twice outside the football stadium. Wise is in stable condition after he was transported to a local hospital.

    Sharkey County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the arrest of two suspects, Justin Pam and Michael Miles Jr. The motive remains unknown as this investigation also continues.

    Prayers up for the people of Mississippi after a heartbreaking homecoming weekend.

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  • Gunmen kill two, injure 12 in a shootout in a crowd in Alabama capital city’s downtown

    Gunmen kill two, injure 12 in a shootout in a crowd in Alabama capital city’s downtown

    Um, first of all, on behalf of City of Montgomery, I want to thank all of you for coming here for the work, uh, you’re doing, uh, to cover all the things that have been taking place in our city. I wanna thank our city council president Ci Yahon, uh, also Councilor Beer, Councilor Zymanski, uh, County Commissioner Constanza, um. sugar Cunting here. Sorry about that *** about my my contacts are. I thought that was you, um, but, uh, thank you for being here. That, that means *** lot. I appreciate that. Um, We wanna think everybody’s been helping us, uh, uh, partners with Lea, ATF, uh, FBI, all of our federal partners, Capitol Police, everybody’s been involved, and certainly, uh, we wanna thank the community, uh, for what, uh, they have been, uh, sharing with us and letting us know since, uh, these unfortunate circumstances. Um, I just wanna, uh, be very brief and I’ll turn it over to you, to you great boys and we’ll open it up for any questions that that you may have. Last night’s incident, uh, was unfortunate but it was certainly, uh, avoidable. Uh, it was an incident of bad judgment, uh, selfish behavior, um, and one that truly put the lives of many, many. Uh, innocent people are in danger. Uh, this weekend we have had thousands of people come, uh, to our city, uh, for things like the state fair, uh, for things like homecomings and other football games, uh, that we’ve had going on along with other events that have been going on around the city. 99.99% of people have been great. Uh, our community partners have been great. Our law enforcement has been. Uh, outstanding, uh, covering these events, uh, and covering things in the city, uh, our community has been great, uh, *** lot of great fun that has been had, uh, and shared, uh, along these last several days, uh, but unfortunately it only took, uh, one or two bad people with bad intentions, uh, to change not only their fortunes but the fortunes of Of many, many other innocent people, um, people who really should not have been caught in anything that, uh, took place and something again that, uh, we prepared for, talking with two great boys leading up to this weekend, talking about coverage. At the state fair talking about coverage uh at ASU’s Homecoming talking about coverage at the uh Morehouse Tuskegee Classic, uh, and talking about coverage in our neighborhoods for those who are just going about their, their day, um, our law enforcement officers were not off. Um, they’re encouraged not to be off, strongly encouraged, uh, they adhere to that. They sacrifice, they missed some ball games, they missed some birthdays, um, because they were protecting the serving this community, um, and even with that and having *** couple of units within, uh, *** short distance, um, we had something like this happen because of *** disagreement. Uh, because of something that again we believe, uh, could have been avoided and should have been. And I want the community to be well aware, uh, that for us this is not acceptable. Uh, we’re not gonna normalize this. Uh, we’re gonna do whatever we can not only to arrest those responsible, uh, we’re gonna do whatever we can to arrest those connected, um, in any way. Uh, who knew what may have happened or who knew what could take place. Um, we’re not going just to stop with those folks that, um, were pulling the trigger last night. Uh, for us it’s *** lot deeper than that because the impact is *** lot deeper than that. The impact is beyond those who are physically. Injured, those who are mentally and emotionally uh injured, those who are working downtown, uh, those who live downtown, those who do business uh and own businesses downtown, um. That’s *** problem for us. And so, uh, see great boys and I have been in talks, uh, consistently throughout the night, uh, about this issue, uh, this incident, and we’re gonna leverage all the resources, uh, and all the partnerships, uh, that we have to that. So I want us just to be, uh, very clear that this is not gonna be accepted here, uh, and we’re gonna look at every uh issue that we can, we’ll look at every ordinance that. We can talk to the city council about if we find some bad actors. Uh, then we’re gonna talk to them about that and that’s what their support which they’ve already, uh, agreed to, to give, uh, but we’re gonna look at everything that we can because this is not, uh, fit Montgomery, this is not who we are, this is not who we have been, um, when you have all the events going on that we had, uh, this weekend, uh, with *** lot of celebration, *** lot of economic impact, *** lot of goodwill. And support for charities, uh, Kiwanis Club, so many other organizations, um, that are doing good things. It is just, uh, to me, uh, very problematic that it only took one or two people *** few seconds, uh, to do something very stupid. Uh, and very dangerous, uh, that costs the lives of, of two people right now, uh, and may impact many, many others, uh, moving forward. And with that, I just want to say to the families, uh, we were praying for you since we heard about this. Uh, our church, uh, pray for the entire community. I know faith leaders who reached out to me, uh, all around this community. did so as well. We’re grateful uh for those prayers and we’re grateful for uh the actions uh as well of innocent people who came to help their neighbor who came to help people and strangers. They didn’t even know, uh, before this circumstance before this situation. So, um, we’re going to be in touch with those families and we’re gonna make sure those families understand um how much, uh, we grieve with them. Um, and we know that it may not be the same as, uh, someone who has lost that person, uh, who they were just talking to minutes or hours before and won’t have that opportunity again, uh, and for those that are injured, it may not. Necessarily have the same outcome but who have physical and mental scars, uh, that will have to be dealt with, uh, moving forward. So, uh, we’re gonna talk to them and I plan to reach out to them specifically myself and we’re gonna continue to make sure this is *** top line uh priority. Uh, not only for our city, but our community. And I think by looking at the leadership that we have here again across the city and across the county, uh, you can tell, uh, that this is all hands on deck and everybody’s on one accord to do whatever needs to be done, uh, to make sure we bring the criminals. To justice swiftly and that we make sure justice is served severely, uh, to send *** message that this is not gonna be accepted, uh, in Montgomery now or at any time moving forward. Uh, with that, I’ll turn over to Chief Rave voice to provide, uh, any, uh, facts and details, uh, and then I’ll come back and I’ll take questions, uh, and I’ll close it out with some other thoughts, uh, that we want to share as well. Chief. I’m collecting my thoughts right now because of how angry I am. So I’ll ask your forbearance as some of that might show through. Last night at 11:31. Our officers responded. The reports of shooting Shootings that they could hear. Over there at the corner of 5th and commerce Streets. As *** result of this incident, we now presently have 14 confirmed total victims of this shooting. Of those 14 confirmed victims. 2 have are deceased, 2 are no longer with us. 17 year old Jeremiah Morse. is unfortunately no longer with us. 43 year old Shalanda. Williams is no longer with us, both deceased from this incident. And of course, as I stated, there were 14 total victims. These two were among them. So of course, My feelings of anger and my heart is out there for their families. 5 of the victims. Have now life threatening. That’s where we are presently. 5 have life-threatening injuries. 7 have non life-threatening injuries. Breakdown on this that bothers me and every victim bothers me. I take it very personally. But this is of note. 7 of the victims are under the age of 20. The youngest of these victims is 16 years old. We know there are multiple calibers of ammunition used in this incident. We recovered multiple shell casings from multiple different weapons. We also recovered multiple weapons from the scene of this incident. We know that at least 2 of the victims, 2 of these 14 people were armed in this incident. This started As *** result of an individual, one of these 14. Who we believe was targeted. In which basically an exchange of gunfire. Erupted When that exchange erupted, Multiple people in the crowd, this is *** crowded area. Pull their own weapons. And started discharging. As you can imagine, that could be *** very chaotic situation. And every weapon has to be accounted for. And every piece of evidence has to be processed. Now, One thing I want to make perfectly clear. We are bringing every resource to bear. I’ve been in communication with multiple federal agencies from the ATF to the FBI to the US Attorney’s Office. I’ve been in communication with the US Marshals. My officers have been in communication with the Alabama Fusion Center. In communication with Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. I’ve been in communication with Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. And of course we’ve been in communication with the Montgomery County DA’s office as well. I’m making this clear because every one of these agencies stands with us. And is working with us to pursue the individuals. Responsible. Now, One thing I want to make clear too. Is that purposefully, I will not release any information that I believe will compromise this investigation. So when we do open it up, I will answer questions as well as I can, but I want people to understand this investigation we are laser focused on. And we are not gonna let anything distract us. From going after the individuals responsible. I’ve been in communication with Crime Stoppers. And one thing I want people to be aware of, if anybody has any information. You have responsibility for this community and to help the people in this community to give that information to us. And I would ask people to call Crime Stoppers at 215O. That’s an area code 334. The number actually is 215-786-7. They are offering *** $5000 reward. Any information that leads to an arrest in this case. Now we have been questioning multiple individuals in relation to this case. As we piece this together, because we really have to reconstruct it. To know exactly what took place and to make sure that appropriate charges are brought. When we Make the charges. But I cannot emphasize enough. That we will pursue every avenue. Available to us and we’re doing it uns senselessly. I mean, I’m sorry, I’m not never ceasing. All of us have been up for hours and hours and hours, and I will tell you. We are not gonna stop until we get this case solved. If anybody has any video information. Or videos they believe that they have taken that will help us in this investigation. I’m going to give you all. An email address. It’s spelled star, center. At Montgomery AL.gov. Again, that is Star Center. At Montgomery AL.gov. My personal opinion. this was very, very much preventable because Individuals who pulled the trigger are responsible for this. They carried those weapons into this crowd. And at any time they could have walked away from this or walked away from whatever was happening, but they did not. And *** bullet On fire does not come back. Montgomery is *** good town full of fighters, full of good people. We will not tolerate this. I’ll guarantee you that. Thank you. I wanna make *** couple of clarification on my thing. Chiefly again all the men and women in Montgomery Police Department, um, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, um, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, FBI, Capitol Police, DA’s office, everybody that, uh, has been *** part of this over these last several hours. also recognize some of the council members that were here. I know we had councilor member council members. Uh, Riley Johnson and Mitchell were also out there last night, uh, with the, with some of the families, uh, as well, so I want to recognize, uh, them, and again that’s about 3/4 of the council that was that has either been there or here. So it shows you again, level of involvement, level of seriousness and we’re taking this as *** city. Um, but I do wanna make *** couple of points of clarification I’ve seen in some early reporting. Uh, this was in no way related, uh, to the events that were happening. Uh, in the city was not related to Alabama State University’s Homecoming. Uh, I went to Alabama State University’s Homecoming. Uh, I had an opportunity to meet with community members, leaders, alumni, uh, fans, as well as the president, uh, and his staff, and, uh, board of trustee leaders. Great event, uh, fantastic for the city, and again, very few problems, uh, we had there. Uh, this was not connected in any way to Uh, the Morehouse Tuskegee Classic, uh, again, had the opportunity to, uh, talk with the community leaders, the president, uh, both institutions, corporate leaders, uh, Walmart and others, um. Great event, great crowd, um, really, really great feedback seeing people of all ages, uh, come out to, to witness what has been ***, uh, big weekend planned in our city for, um, several weeks. So I want to be clear that where this happened was not *** sanctioned party or gathering by any uh of those uh entities, um, either the HBCU classic Weekend. Uh, or Alabama State University’s homecoming or Morehouse Tuskegee’s homecoming whatsoever. Uh, that’s *** local place with local establishment and unfortunately, most of, uh, the victims, uh, as far as we know, uh, were local and unaffiliated, uh, with the institutions or, um, those, uh, activities that I mentioned. They were not connected to the Alabama State Fair. So, uh, again, *** lot of people are out there, uh, *** lot of preparation, *** lot of work, *** lot of sacrifice on behalf of dedicated, uh, law enforcement professionals, um, nothing out of the ordinary there. So, uh, I wanna, I wanna stress that because I think sometimes, uh, there’s *** lot of things out there in particularly on social media that potentially people try to, uh, craft and play detective. Uh, we’ve got. Great detectives here and throughout, uh, who are already on this and I just wanna make sure that’s clear so as not to besmirch any of those uh organizations uh that were doing so much, uh, and have done so much to great people here to our city. Um, second thing, you know, I, I wanna say. Is that um when you have people who are willing to, to, to draw, draw down uh in *** crowded area, that’s reckless uh and dangerous enough. Uh, when you have people who uh are willing to do that with police officers in plain sight, uh, within short, um, Distance, uh, I’m not sure if those people can be, uh, reaclimated to our society. Uh, I’m not sure that they can be productive citizens in our society. Uh, if you’re, if you’re that determined, um, to try to take someone’s life at the expense of, of others, I’m not sure those are the people that we can allow back uh into our society because the risk is just too great. Um, and I want to thank again our law enforcement professionals and everybody who helped us identify, uh, some suspects who helped us identify, uh, and apprehend, uh, some people who were, uh, close by, some people who had guns on them. Now I would have to be determined whether not those guns were uh connected to this crime, but certainly had guns on them. And we’re gonna find others, but when people are, are that reckless, uh, when it comes to uh human life, that’s *** problem, uh, and that’s *** problem that that’s gonna be *** lot deeper than what we’ll talk about at least here today, but it’s something that I think we have to talk about as *** community, we have to have some tough conversations uh around that. Who wants to be saved and who can be saved? Not everybody wants to be saved. And we have to find out who those people are, um, and we have to take things in our, uh, perspective to be proactive to protect this community. Too many good people here working hard, uh, doing great things to help this community prosper and move forward, uh, for it to be, um, just set on fire by people who are just committed to destruction. And committed to bringing about physical harm regardless of who it comes to, uh, because of their short-sighted emotions and how they deal with conflict and how they deal with disagreements. Con conflict and disagreements are as old as mankind. How we deal with it is the only thing that changed. And so it used to be *** time when somebody, there was *** disagreement, might be *** fist fight. I’m born and raised in Montgomery. I’ve seen plenty of them and it was that. And now we’re in this place where you don’t do that because everybody feels like they have to have *** gun. Everybody feels like this is wild wild west and so you lose innocent people over something very simple, uh, that could be worked out that even maybe without pushing and shoving could be de-escalated. And we have what we have now, innocent people uh who are harmed and many more who are impacted. So I just wanted to to mention that, uh, and then finally I want to say this $5000 isn’t enough to bring the cowards to justice. I put $20,000 on that, um, and we’re gonna make that $25,000 maybe 50. We had, we had another $25,000 from from our city council president, from the council. That’s here. Thank you. Thank all of you. Um, and this shouldn’t be about reward money. Uh, you should feel compelled to come forward because innocent people were harmed last night, um, and most, most, uh, were just in the, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Could have been any one of us. I was just you know, out of town at the weekend before. No different, um. And we gotta make sure that again we don’t accept this and so um I thank our city council for for just doing that. But $50,000 is what we’re where we’re gonna be right now, um, and we want those who know, uh, to come forward, not because you want the money, because you know it’s what’s right. Um, and you know it’s the right thing to do for people, uh, who should not have been in this situation that have been horrified and more importantly, to remove the people who are behind this. I wanna be very clear, we’re gonna see this all the way through, and if there’s legislation we need to change, we’ll change legislation. Uh, there are things we need to change in the bail and bond laws, and we’ll change the bail and bonds laws. Um, we’re not going to just sit here and Do the same thing over and over and over again. We’re not gonna do that. That’s not fair to the victims, it’s not fair to the families, it’s not fair to this community. Um, we’re just not gonna do that. So if we have to tie things up, and we have to take *** different position, then so be it. We’ll do that, but, uh, dangerous criminals and people who are this reckless uh with human life don’t deserve to be free. Uh they don’t deserve to walk our streets. Um, that, that’s not anything you are promised. That, that’s something that uh is an opportunity. As *** blessing. And if you can’t do that, then you don’t need to be on our streets, period. So with that I’ll open up uh for any questions you may have for myself, to great boys, um, and we’ll take them there. Chief Marty Roney Montgomery Advertiser, could you uh verify the name spellings of the deceased victims, please, sir? I’m sorry. Certainly, sir. Um, Jeremiah Morse is from the spelling I have at present, uh J E R E M I *** H, last name M O R R I S. And the other victim is Shalanda Williams, spelled S H *** L *** N D ***, last name W I L L I *** M S. Were they both Montgomery residents? Uh, at present we believe so. Um, All right. Any other questions? Do we have any indication of what led to the initial altercation? At present We know, like I stated earlier, one individual got targeted. And then an exchange of gunfire took place. We are still investigating the state, the motives and the reasons behind some of that. We do have leads coming in though that are helping us shape that, but I can’t say further than that because I, like I said before, I’m not gonna compromise anything because this is gonna be *** very complex investigation with multiple suspects when we finish it up. How many officers were working in the downtown area last night? I would have to refer to my worksheets, but I know that we have at least 5 in close proximity to this case. When you say close proximity, I mean I’m I’m talking within like running distance. OK, but like I stated, I, I would have to check if you want an exact number, but I can talk about the folks who responded to it and how fast they did and they were very fast on that. When the mayor said that there was an officer not 50 ft away, he was right. I’m gonna ask this question with an apology beforehand because I know how hard y’all been working and how nerves are wrong. But my editor told me to ask you, does this mean downtown Montgomery is unsafe? OK, can I answer that first, you get your thoughts. Let me say this. You know, I think when you get in *** car accident, you say driving is unsafe. You know, um, I, I, I don’t, I don’t think that, uh, downtown Montgomery is unsafe. Let me be very clear about that. Um, I think we have some reckless and careless people, uh, who did something very stupid last night that cost two people their lives and multiple people, uh, impacts on their lives from now until. Um, I think the investment in technology, uh, that we have, uh, increased this over the last several months, um, has proved beneficial. I think our police department chief great Boys outreach with Downtown Business Association has been productive. Uh, I think our conversations with major stakeholders, uh, in that area whether it’s the, uh, State Capitol Police. Uh, whether it’s those that assist with the retirement systems of Alabama’s, uh, buildings as well as our entrepreneurs and small business owners. There’s been *** great, great collaboration, uh, of teamwork and effectiveness there. Uh, the fact that we are having discussions right now in our city council about investing, uh, hundreds of millions of dollars to further grow downtown, uh, through tourism and things that benefit our city overall. Um, I think it’s an indication that Uh, we believe downtown, uh, it’s safe and again, I’ll go back to what I said before. You had thousands of people. Uh, who were, who were downtown. We had the investor Doctor Anthony Lee over at Huntingdon, uh, on Friday. I mean just *** great, I mean you couldn’t really ask to me for *** better weekend whether an activity uh involved to see people from all around coming uh through our city and coming through, uh, these spaces for different reasons at different times. What we had were, um, some individuals who decided that they were gonna put. Innocent lives at risk because of whatever issues or whatever disagreements or whatever conflicts they had, and I don’t think it would have mattered if it was on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or it was on the steps of the Capitol. I think that that was going to happen and what we have to do is we have to make sure that from our standpoint we send, we send *** strong message, *** direct message that this is not acceptable and if you do it in our city, you’re gonna pay *** heavy price. And you’re gonna pay *** heavy price and the public is gonna be aware of it. If it means making sure that there’s *** public example made of the people that are behind this, so be it. You just heard the city council that’s what we just said relates to uh this reward. This should not be about that, uh, as I said *** second ago, but if that’s what it takes to bring these people to justice, if it takes again of advocating to our judges, takes advocating to our legislature about some laws that need to be. about repeat violent offenders, even if it’s just in Montgomery County, then we’ll do whatever we have to do. So I don’t think that’s an indication on uh downtown. I think it’s an indication on the individuals who are responsible for this. This is not about uh the location. This is about the people involved, and this is about the recklessness and the decisions they made that have impacted many, many other people beyond themselves and they have to be held accountable for that. And we’re gonna do everything in our power to make sure they’re held accountable to it and to make sure other people understand just what that accountability costs, right? Because if you take two lives here. You impact as many as they have, again, it wouldn’t matter if it was around the corner from my house. The same thing should be, should apply that you ought to have *** level of respect and dignity for human life, that’s what being *** civilized society. Demands and if you can’t be in *** civilized society, you don’t need to be on our streets, period. And so this is not about um downtown, it’s about the individuals uh combined. Chiefre boys and I talked about technology from drones to cameras leading up to this. And again, by and large across the board, our partners in law enforcement. Our community has responded very, very well. Couldn’t be more proud uh of how this community embraced everything that that was going on here, um, all at one time. Uh, men and women in Montgomery Police Department, outstanding job. All of our partners, the law enforcement outstanding, um, and again, you got people that are from here to down this hall. And they’re willing to do something. I don’t know there’s anything, *** drone or camera or any other amount of men and women are gonna do, uh, but I also think that that will help us close this case very swiftly and I think the community’s partnership and the community’s interest, uh. In it, uh, will help as well. We got *** lot of great feedback, *** lot of offers of support, and those are people who don’t uh necessarily come downtown all the time, they don’t necessarily uh stay out past 9 or 10 o’clock, uh, but they know this is their community. And they have pride in their community. They want to make sure that we don’t let uh some people disrupt and destroy some of the things that too many people have put *** lot of time and effort and energy uh in doing. So, uh, I want to respond to that question because again I, I think it’s very. Very important for us to understand when we partner with our city, we partner with our county, uh, and our business owners and our faith leaders and grassroots leaders here is to serve everybody, wherever part of town that may be and unfortunately sometimes. People with bad intentions tend to go uh where innocent people are, but they have to pay *** price. They have to pay *** heavy price, and they have to pay it swiftly, and we need to make sure that they do that whatever the cost. And if $50,000 doesn’t get it, we’ll go out and we’ll get some more. But we’re gonna find the people who are behind this, and I promise you there will be some changes. There will be some changes because this is gonna be an example for some people. We’re not gonna keep coming back here having these press conferences because stupid people do stupid stuff that causes people’s lives. We’re not gonna keep doing that. They’re reckless and they’re dangerous, they don’t need to be on the streets. They don’t, they need to be somewhere where it doesn’t matter what they do, what they think about themselves because they should not have that impact on others. And so whatever that cost is, so be it. No, to follow up on that question, um, is it responsible for the city of Montgomery to continue to bring thousands of people in when even though these weren’t related, it wasn’t related to anything, you still have the Ferris wheel right around the block from where this happened, and we have low numbers of police officers they’re doing the best they can. I understand that, but. 5 officers, you know, for an area that large, it, it seems like *** low number. I mean, do we need to Not bring events like this into the city until we have more officers. I’ll let you get to the the manpower uh issues. I’m not sure how many people are are are knowing down on that shift, uh, at that time. Uh, but no, I, I think the city of Montgomery, we, we, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Uh, we’re *** city that, you know, really has tremendous pride, um, in what we do and, you know, uh. I didn’t get *** chance to go out to the fair yet. I was looking forward and looking forward to getting out there, but I go out there every year. The thing that I’m always impressed about from the time I was growing up here, uh, is what the Kiwanis Club, uh, does for so many people, uh, not just in our city. But in our area and I say that because the fair is *** big part of uh bringing in funds and revenue. That’s *** big operation that our police department and uh sheriff’s department, so many folks work hard on year round. And to have that along with uh Alabama State University’s homecoming, to have that along with, you know, having dignitaries in town for Huntington Colleges, uh, presidential investiture. To have that along with the uh Morehouseki Classic is something that um our men and women in law enforcement are trained to do. Uh, they are committed to do it and I think for them and and our partners, uh, there’s been *** great amount of collaboration. Uh, with our, uh, partners in law enforcement and also the community. Uh, we’ve got retired law enforcement officers, um, point out things to me, uh, and tell me different things and it’s great. Uh, we’ve had people, I’ve had people call and text me, uh, who are retired, uh, to talk about things they’re seeing in their neighborhood and their community at an event, um, so we always have additional eyes and ears, um, in. Uh, when we’re doing things like this, and I think when you have the type of working relationship that’s not transactional, that really is about working with um Uh, Capitol Police, uh, Alabama Law enforcement, uh, agency that’s also, uh, working with our federal partners because we’re in constant contact with them, uh, I think it makes these type of events, uh, certainly not only possible, uh, moving forward, but I think it encourages us. Um, the fact that, you know, again I, I, I know that the number you mentioned, uh, that you brought up before, um. You know, these are people who listen, this could have been much worse. Um, these are people who have no regard for how many law enforcement officers we have, um, they they’re, they’re that type of, of, of individual and I think for us to have uh the sheriff of our county here to have our police chief here again it shows the collaboration, it shows the working relationship. Uh, that we have that doesn’t matter about jurisdictional roles to have our city council, our county commission partners here. It doesn’t matter. We all live here. Uh, we all want to see, uh, this community thrive whether it’s *** concert or whether it’s *** race on the river, uh, what’s *** 5K for charity, uh, it doesn’t matter. We want to see those things, uh, take place and I feel very confident and felt confident. Uh, going in, uh, to this weekend that we were more than prepared, uh, and that we were ready to handle, uh, just about anything that would come up and Chief and I probably talked, um, several times throughout the week, uh, several times on Friday, and then *** couple more times, even yesterday, uh, about just kind of where things were, and I wanna say this, the act of one or two individuals coming back to your point, um. Doesn’t cloud the entire community. Community has been great. Community has been helpful, has been outgoing, very, very supportive across the city, uh, and, and we commend them for that, and they have responded. Uh, you’ve got some of the messages I’ve gotten to not approving and not liking what’s happening and not gonna settle for that as well. They’re as angry as we are. Uh, and I appreciate that because they understand what we’re doing in this city and in this region and they understand what so many folks uh around the walls and those that are here, uh, in our community do to try to bring events, uh, to downtown to other parts of Montgomery, uh, so that you know you can win with your family, you can align with your friends, you can’t invite, uh, people here and I wanna say it’s not let it uh give final marks on the manpower thing. You know, um, if what happened here only happened here, I might be concerned. Um, and although I’m concerned about why this happened, uh, I know enough and I talked to enough mayors around the state and enough mayors around the country to know that we all deal with it. It’s all it’s our worst nightmare probably short of *** law enforcement officer or *** first responder, um, having something serious happen to them. Uh, no one wants to have the term mass shooting. Uh, affiliated with their community, uh, and we all talk about that consistently about how you prepare, how you plan, and then how do you respond. And I think the fact that we put so much time, effort, and energy in that, uh, not only helped us within two hours, uh, corro some people who, uh, they don’t have some ties to this. They have some ties to something bad to happen. Uh, I can promise you that they’re not just innocent bystanders. Because of that planning, preparation and response. So I think we’re more than capable of being able to. Handle events like this and others. Uh, we’ve done it with Buckmasters. Uh, we do it with, uh, the salute the Veterans Bowl. We do it with concerts. We do other events here all the time with the help of everybody, uh, that’s in this room, and I’m proud to be able to work with all of them, uh, in various capacities to get those things done. We’ll continue to do that. We don’t gonna let one or two bad apples, uh, spoil *** bunch, we’re gonna find those that are rotten and we’ll get them the hell out of here. I, I’d like to address something here and I want to clarify. When I was stating that there were 5 within, you say walking distance, that doesn’t, that number did not include the folks who also responded in their vehicles. As the mayor just alluded, we had one officer who was so quick on the scene, he was transporting *** victim before. You can say the ambulances got there. The response was so quick, OK, we were taking people. And do investigative, you could say custody short distance away. Yeah I, I, while I can’t tell you how fast I got here, I know I got here pretty fast and this response of our units and our officers. This was not *** manpower issue. We had plenty of manpower. We had darn Aaliyah out there, ATF, other federal partners, Sheriff’s department. I mean, we had *** huge response on this and very quick response. It’s something you got to understand with these types of situations. When you know how fast the magazine can be emptied out of *** handgun, an automatic handgun, that incident might have only taken 1 or less than 60 seconds. So this was an issue and, and one thing I think we all have to be aware of. And I think we don’t need anybody. Misinforming the public. This is an issue. Of the individuals who pull those triggers. They pull those triggers. They hurt those people. That’s who’s at fault in this, and that’s who we’re going after. And we can’t let as *** community, as *** police department, as law enforcement officers, we cannot let anything sway us or distract us from that purpose. Our response on this was very timely and we bought *** lot of force to bear. But when you have these many individuals get shot, And you have this type of crime scene. You have to do everything right. Because you only get really one chance at that prosecution. And we’re gonna do everything we can and we are thankful to all of the the law enforcement partners who showed up last night, who are showing up today and who are helping us because we are utilizing like I stated, every resource. And I’m proud of my detectives and the work that they are doing. I have full confidence in their abilities. And I’m so thankful. That we can work together as *** team to go after these bad actors do not. Forget who’s responsible for the shootings. And it’s the people who pull those triggers, not just here but anywhere, but that’s who’s responsible for this. And my um Attorney General Steve Marshall and commenting about about the shooting, he, he said, uh. He said, I don’t know the exact quote, but something about he’s concerned about this what he called the stubborn refusal of officials in Montgomery to acknowledge there’s *** serious crime problem here. Do you, Mayor, do you have any response to, to what he said? I don’t know that there, um, one could look at our record uh objectively and what we’ve done with our city council, uh, and say that um there’s *** refusal to acknowledge crime is an issue, uh, in the city of Montgomery. Uh, I don’t know *** major city in the state, and I work with all the mayors in this state that would say that crime is not an issue. Uh, in this city. I think if you look at our budget, if you look at the amount of money that we have put into technology that we have put into our first responders, that we have put into recruiting and retaining the very best and brightest, uh, in law enforcement, the type of people that we bring in, casting, uh, wide net, bringing back. Uh, part-time officers, uh, really acclimated to keep great boy suggestions about addressing, uh, issues around manpower, uh, talking to our share, uh, about great ideas he has about debt programs getting people in that pipeline. Uh, working, uh, with uh community violence, uh, intervention program, funding also violence prevention with the council’s approval, working with our nonprofit, uh, leaders, faith leaders, grassroots leaders, um, I, I don’t know how one could really Uh, make that statement and, and see what we have been doing here, uh, over the last 6 years. I think it’s very easy, um, to, to sit back while you’re watching college football, um, and talk about something you don’t know about. Attorney General wants to talk to me about what we’ve been doing. I’d be more than happy to sit with him. I’ll go to him, uh, to tell him exactly what we’ve been doing. Um, but I don’t need anybody lecturing me about crime. I’ve had *** gun pointed in my face, um, and I’ll never forget. I wasn’t the mayor then, and these people last night won’t never forget what happened to them. Uh, and so, you know, I don’t, I don’t need that type of sideline, uh, commentary, uh, from the state’s top law enforcement official. I need solutions and he’s willing to offer some solutions around bail and bar reform, I’m open. We’ve been talking about that for several years. We’re gonna offer some solutions, uh, around issues around permitless caring. I’m open. We’ve been talking about that for several years. So, you know, we’ve done more than our part. Uh, we have uh engaged community partners that has helped us lower crime in this city, um, you know, over 26, 27%. Um, and we want that number to be 100%. We’re not complacent with that. Uh, we’re not stubborn to the facts that people handle disagreements very poorly, which result in why we’re here today. But to say that there’s been *** refusal, uh, it’s just ***. Lack of awareness, lack of information or education, uh, but I’d be more than happy uh to talk with him or his staff about what we’ve been doing and to talk about ways that we can collaborate, uh, not only to make Montgomery safer, but to make the state of Alabama safer. Come here. I’m sorry. We spoke about the police force’s new drones at *** press conference recently, and we saw them up in the air last night. How are they assisting specifically in this case? Drones can be utilized in so many ways, not only just for visualizing or chasing suspects if you’re in *** like *** hot pursuit, uh, they can also be utilized to map areas, and when you map areas, it helps you better locate evidence. As I stated before, we are in the process of reconstructing everything because that is what’s going to lead us to *** successful prosecution. So drones are utilized in so many different ways that we were really glad to be utilizing them last night. In fact, the ones you saw life are our allies at Aliya because they had specialized things that they could do with us. So that’s why I’m saying we are working hand in hand with all of the other law enforcement agencies. Um, so we are definitely gonna utilize every resource we have on this. So thank you for your questions.

    Gunmen kill two, injure 12 in a shootout in a crowd in Alabama capital city’s downtown

    Updated: 7:35 PM EDT Oct 5, 2025

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    Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said.The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified by police as Shalanda WIlliams, and a 17-year-old identified as Jeremiah Morris. Five of the wounded were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, including a juvenile, Montgomery police said.No one had been arrested as of Sunday afternoon as police appealed to the public for information and sorted through a complicated crime scene that involved multiple people firing weapons in a crowd just after the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College rivalry football game ended blocks away.“We’re gonna do whatever we can not only to arrest those responsible, we’re going to do whatever to arrest those connected in any way, who knew what may have happened, who knew what could take place,” Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed told a Sunday news conference. “We’re not going just to stop with those folks that were pulling the trigger last night.”The shooters “had no regard for human life,” he said.Police were reviewing surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and potential suspects and trying to piece together a motive for why the shooting started.Police were called around 11:30 p.m. to what Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys described as a “mass shooting” that broke out near the Hank Williams Museum, the Rosa Parks Museum and the Alabama Statehouse, within earshot of officers on routine patrol in downtown Montgomery.The shooting began when someone targeted one of the 14 victims, prompting multiple people to pull their own weapons and start firing back, Graboys said.”This was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd,” Graboys said.The shooters, he said, “did not care about the people around them when they did it.”Seven of the 14 victims were under 20, and the youngest was 16, Graboys said. At least two of the victims were armed, Graboys said.Multiple weapons and shell cases were recovered from the scene, Graboys said.Few other details were available.It was a particularly busy weekend in Montgomery, with Alabama State University’s homecoming football game that day at Hornet Stadium, the Alabama National Fair ongoing at Garrett Coliseum and the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College game having just ended at nearby Cramton Bowl.Reed said there were police patrols within 50 feet (15 meters) when the shooting broke out. One officer was so quick to arrive on the scene that he transported a victim to the hospital before an ambulance arrived, Graboys said.

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. —

    Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said.

    The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified by police as Shalanda WIlliams, and a 17-year-old identified as Jeremiah Morris. Five of the wounded were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, including a juvenile, Montgomery police said.

    No one had been arrested as of Sunday afternoon as police appealed to the public for information and sorted through a complicated crime scene that involved multiple people firing weapons in a crowd just after the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College rivalry football game ended blocks away.

    “We’re gonna do whatever we can not only to arrest those responsible, we’re going to do whatever to arrest those connected in any way, who knew what may have happened, who knew what could take place,” Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed told a Sunday news conference. “We’re not going just to stop with those folks that were pulling the trigger last night.”

    The shooters “had no regard for human life,” he said.

    Police were reviewing surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and potential suspects and trying to piece together a motive for why the shooting started.

    Police were called around 11:30 p.m. to what Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys described as a “mass shooting” that broke out near the Hank Williams Museum, the Rosa Parks Museum and the Alabama Statehouse, within earshot of officers on routine patrol in downtown Montgomery.

    The shooting began when someone targeted one of the 14 victims, prompting multiple people to pull their own weapons and start firing back, Graboys said.

    “This was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd,” Graboys said.

    The shooters, he said, “did not care about the people around them when they did it.”

    Seven of the 14 victims were under 20, and the youngest was 16, Graboys said. At least two of the victims were armed, Graboys said.

    Multiple weapons and shell cases were recovered from the scene, Graboys said.

    Few other details were available.

    It was a particularly busy weekend in Montgomery, with Alabama State University’s homecoming football game that day at Hornet Stadium, the Alabama National Fair ongoing at Garrett Coliseum and the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College game having just ended at nearby Cramton Bowl.

    Reed said there were police patrols within 50 feet (15 meters) when the shooting broke out. One officer was so quick to arrive on the scene that he transported a victim to the hospital before an ambulance arrived, Graboys said.

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    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene, police said.

    The dead included a 43-year-old woman and a 17-year-old male, while five of the 14 people wounded were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, including a juvenile, police said.

    No one had been arrested as of Sunday afternoon as police appealed to the public for information about the shooting and sorted through a complicated crime scene that involved multiple people firing at each other.

    Police were still trying to piece together a motive for why the shooting started.

    Police were called around 11:30 p.m. to what Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys described as a “mass shooting” that happened within earshot of officers on routine patrol in downtown Montgomery.

    “This was two parties involved that were basically shooting at each other in the middle of a crowd,” Graboys said.

    The shooters, he said, “did not care about the people around them when they did it.”

    Seven of the 14 victims were under 20, and the youngest was 16, Graboys said. At least two of the victims were armed and the shooting began when someone targeted one of the 14 victims, Graboys said.

    The gunfire prompted multiple people to pull their own weapons and start firing, Graboys said.

    Multiple weapons and shell cases were recovered from the scene, Graboys said.

    Few other details were available.

    It was a particularly busy weekend in Montgomery, with Alabama State University’s homecoming football game that day at Hornet Stadium, the Alabama National Fair ongoing at Garrett Coliseum and the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College rivalry football game having just ended at nearby Cramton Bowl.

    Mayor Steven Reed told reporters there were police units within 50 feet (15 meters) when the shooting broke out and that the shooters “had no regard for human life.”

    Investigators were reviewing surveillance video and interviewing witnesses and potential suspects.

    “We will do everything we need to gather every bit of evidence to chase down whoever is involved,” Graboys said.

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  • Latter-day Saints churchgoers raise money for family of accused mass shooter

    Among the fundraisers that have cropped up in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at a Michigan church last weekend, one aims to raise money not for the victims but, instead, for family members of the accused shooter.

    The organizer, David Butler, says he is not a member of the Grand Blanc Township ward of the Chuch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but is an “ordinary member” of the LDS church. Butler wrote that 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, who police have identified as the shooter, is leaving “behind a wife and children who must be grieving,” and that “one of the Sanford sons deals with serious medical challenges that require ongoing care, treatment, and specialized support.”

    The deadly church attack in Grand Blanc, Michigan, killed four people and left at least eight others injured. Sanford drove his pickup truck through the front doors of the church, exited his vehicle and opened fire with an assault-style rifle at around 100 churchgoers, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said. Officials say he then set the church building on fire.

    Sanford also died following an exchange of fire with police, Renye said. Based on conversations with the FBI director, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the attacker was “an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith.”

    Despite that, Butler described Sanford’s family as victims of the attack as well, saying the Biblical book of James “teaches us that ‘Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.’ The purpose of this GiveSendGo is to do that.”

    The fundraiser, hosted by GiveSendGo, had raised over $334,000 as of early Friday morning against a stated goal of $500,000. The comments left by those donating money indicate many are also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    “We have been taught to be peacemakers and pray that your family is blessed and watched over during this difficult time,” one anonymous donor wrote. “May you feel the love of the Savior surrounding you always. You are beloved children of God.”

    The Detroit Free Press reports that the shooter’s family was initially wary of the fundraiser, thinking it might even be someone impersonating the family, but eventually came around.

    “It took my breath away, that this church is so forgiving and understanding and caring,” Sanford’s sister Katie Hamilton told the paper.

    There are also several fundraisers aiming to help the families of those whose lives were taken or those who suffered injuries in the attack. GoFundMe has launched a verified hub to organize its fundraisers in that vein. 

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  • Marine veteran charged in deadly North Carolina waterfront shooting appears subdued in court

    By CAROLYN THOMPSON and ALLEN G. BREED

    A decorated Marine veteran charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, killing three people and wounding five, appeared subdued in court Monday as prosecutors said they may seek the death penalty.

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  • Gunman in Michigan church shooting died after “exchanging gunfire” with police. Here’s what we know.

    Police in Grand Blanc, Michigan, say the gunman who killed at least four people and injured eight others at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday morning died after “exchanging gunfire” with police.

    The suspect was identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said. 

    Sanford served in the U.S. Marines for three-and-a-half years from 2004 to 2008, CBS News has confirmed. He was deployed from August 2007 to March 2008 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which led to the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

    According to Renye, calls about the shooting at the Church of Latter-day Saints on McCandlish Road came in around 10:25 a.m., and officers were at the scene less than a minute later. Police said Sanford died at the parking lot of the church around 10:33 a.m.

    Sanford lived around eight miles away from the church. Michigan State Police and a bomb squad were investigating his home throughout the evening on Sunday. 

    Investigators say there may be bomb making materials inside, though it’s unknown if anything was found. 

    Nearby residents told CBS News Detroit they couldn’t believe what happened in their small suburban community located about an hour northwest of Detroit.

    “I really feel for the families, you know, even feel for the accused,” resident April Vann said. “It’s just a sad, really sad situation. You know, family’s lives are destroyed in 2.2 seconds.”

    Jason Miller, another nearby resident, said something has to change. 

    “It’s troubling. A mile from home, you know? It’s obviously getting closer to us, right?” Miller said. “So when it starts getting close, you’re not just looking at the TV screen saying, ‘I feel bad. What’s going on?’ It’s here now, and that’s why we got to do something. It’s getting to be a problem.”

    Several neighbors weren’t able to get inside their homes on Sunday afternoon. Michigan State Police troopers said they would be in the area into the evening.

    President Trump said on Truth Social that Sunday’s shooting was “horrendous,” and that he would provide “full support” to state and local officials for the investigation.

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    Three people were killed and at least five more suffered injuries in a mass shooting in Southport, North Carolina, on Saturday night, authorities said.

    Authorities quickly arrested a person of interest, Nigel Max Edge, a resident of the nearby town of Oak Island, according to police in the town and in Southport. At a news conference Sunday morning, Southport Police Chief Todd Coring said their investigation so far suggests the shooting was “highly premeditated.”

    From a boat that he briefly parked outside of the American Fish Company, a waterfront bar and restaurant along the Cape Fear River, the shooter opened fire at around 9:30 p.m. ET Saturday into a crowd of patrons at the Southport establishment, according to city officials. He proceeded to flee the scene by boat and headed toward Oak Island, where U.S. Coast Guard crews found and detained him, Coring said.

    Edge was loading a boat at a public boat ramp in Oak Island at the time of his arrest, said Brunswick County District Attorney Jon David, citing a Coast Guard report. He was held in custody overnight by the Oak Island Police Department and turned over to Southport Police, said Coring. Edge faces numerous charges, including three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of first-degree attempted murder, and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon and intent to kill, according to the police chief.

    North Carolina’s state Bureau of Investigation is assisting Southport police with an ongoing probe, Southport officials said. They do not believe there is any lingering threat to the public in the aftermath of that arrest.

    Authorities have not identified by name any of the patrons who were shot. They are expected to provide an update on their investigation at a news conference Sunday morning.

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  • Gunman in Michigan church shooting died after “exchanging gunfire” with police. Here’s what we know.

    Police in Grand Blanc, Michigan, say the gunman who killed at least two people and injured eight others at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday morning died after “exchanging gunfire” with police.

    The suspect was identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye said. 

    Sanford served in the U.S. Marines for three-and-a-half years from 2004 to 2008, CBS News has confirmed. He was deployed from August 2007 to March 2008 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, which led to the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

    According to Renye, calls about the shooting at the Church of Latter-day Saints on McCandlish Road came in around 10:25 a.m., and officers were at the scene less than a minute later. Police said Sanford died at the parking lot of the church around 10:33 a.m.

    Sanford lived around seven miles away from the church. Michigan State Police and a bomb squad were investigating his home on Sunday afternoon.

    Investigators say there may be bomb making materials inside, though it’s unknown if anything was found. 

    Nearby residents told CBS News Detroit they couldn’t believe what happened in their small suburban community located about an hour northwest of Detroit.

    “I really feel for the families, you know, even feel for the accused,” resident April Vann said. “It’s just a sad, really sad situation. You know, family’s lives are destroyed in 2.2 seconds.”

    Jason Miller, another nearby resident, said something has to change. 

    “It’s troubling. A mile from home, you know? It’s obviously getting closer to us, right?” Miller said. “So when it starts getting close, you’re not just looking at the TV screen saying, ‘I feel bad. What’s going on?’ It’s here now, and that’s why we got to do something. It’s getting to be a problem.”

    Several neighbors weren’t able to get inside their homes on Sunday afternoon. Michigan State Police troopers said they would be in the area into the evening.

    President Trump said on Truth Social that Sunday’s shooting was “horrendous,” and that he would provide “full support” to state and local officials for the investigation.

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  • Who Was Thomas Sanford? What We Know About Michigan Mass Shooting Suspect

    Thomas Jacob Sanford of Burton, Michigan has been identified as the suspect in the mass shooting that killed two and injured eight others at a Mormon Church Sunday, Grand Blanc Police Chief William Renye said during a Sunday evening press conference.

    The incident started with a car driving into the building before a fire broke out and the suspect began shooting at the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan around 10:25 a.m.

    Renye said the 40-year-old suspect was killed in the parking lot of the church less than ten minutes after the first call came in for the shooting.

    The suspect was engaged by two officers who were at the church when the incident occurred, one was a DNR officer and the other worked for Grand Blanc Police, Renye said during an earlier press conference.

    Multiple agencies, including the FBI and ATF, are investigating the deadly shooting.

    Of the eight surviving victims, one remains in critical condition while seven others are in stable condition, Renye said.

    The identities of the injured and deceased have not yet been released.

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  • Annunciation community marks 1-month since mass shooting

    In the Saturday morning sun, students, families and parishioners gathered beside the sanctuary at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

    The stained glass windows are now repaired. A handwritten note on the door reads, ‘a future filled with hope’ and ‘Jeremiah 29:11’. 

    “We’re here to stand, to sing, to live, to nonviolently fight for Harper and Fletcher and all of us impacted on that day,” said Matt DeBoer, the principal of Annunciation Catholic School.

    One month has passed since a gunman fired through the windows of that church, taking the lives of two children, 8-year-old Harper Moyski and 10-year-old Fletcher Merkel. A total of 21 others were hurt, including 18 students between the ages of 6 and 15. Three adults in their 80s were also injured. 

    School leaders say as of this week, all students have been released from the hospital. 

    “Our community is a community of love, connection and care,” said Deana Clapp, a dean of the school. “We have the courage to reclaim this sidewalk, our wiffle ball field and more. Eventually, we will reclaim our church.”

    Joan McCoy, a parishioner of Annunciation for over two decades, says she was inside the church during the attack on Aug. 27th. While acknowledging the fear and tragedy, she finds strength in community. 

    “We were strong to begin with, but I think it’s making us even stronger now,” McCoy said on Saturday. “You just see the unification of everybody, the families that are coming together. I am just so touched by just the generosity of everybody.”

    McCoy says the Annunciation community is one marked by love. 

    “Hopefully, we can be a light to everybody else that this is how you deal with tragedy, you pull together,” she said.

    Catholics from across the Twin Cities joined Annunciation through prayer at a Saturday morning mass, gathering inside the Cathedral of St Paul.

    As this community carries on, each at their own pace, DeBoer continues to encourage change in the wake of tragedy.

    “There’s a lot of ways we can move our feet, and it’s through building meaningful and loving relationships that we can create the world that Harper and Fletcher believed in,” DeBoer said. 

    The principal recognizes that people will feel led to ‘move their feet’ or act in differing and unique ways.

    “We need political changes, and there are many people here that are going to work at that, but we also need cultural change,” he said. 

    Annunciation students went back to school for the first time on September 16th, on a modified schedule. School leaders say students and staff will return full-time next week. 

    Some Annunciation families call for change

    Some Annunciation families have spoken out about political change and gun control in the weeks following the tragedy at Annunciation. 

    On Saturday, gun safety advocates gathered at the Capitol for a rally called “Don’t Look Away”. Several groups were demanding a special session to ban assault weapons. 

    Within the past week, three mothers of kids who attend Annunciation Catholic School attended a town hall in Plymouth, Minnesota, that focused on gun violence prevention. Earlier this month, parents of students who survived the attack testified in front of state lawmakers, asking them to take action on gun control measures. Gov. Tim Walz and other leaders of the lawmaking bodies are still working on terms for a special session. 

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  • Lake Street encampment shooting stemmed from dispute over drug territory, charges say

    An Illinois man was allegedly trying to sell drugs at a Minneapolis homeless encampment when a dispute led to a shootout that killed a woman and injured six others, newly filed charges say.

    More than 30 shots were fired at the encampment on Lake Street and 28th Avenue South on Sept. 15, according to a criminal complaint. Three of the seven people shot had life-threatening injuries, and the woman died of her wounds days later. 

    The 31-year-old Illinois man was arrested on Wednesday. Charging documents say that when he was taken into custody, he was carrying two bags of suspected fentanyl and methamphetamine.

    In a post-Miranda statement, the man said he was part of a group of drug dealers from Illinois who had turned to selling in Minnesota, specifically along the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis. According to the charges, he complained that the city had “shut down” the Greenway, and decided he should start selling drugs at the encampment on Lake Street.

    The man said he had just spent two days in jail for allegedly driving under the influence, and when he was released around 6 p.m., he met up with his four associates with the intention of going to the Lake Street site, according to the complaint.

    When the group arrived around 10 p.m., they learned that there was already a separate group selling drugs, the man said in his statement. The other group was yelling that they didn’t want anyone else to sell drugs, so the Illinois man said he and his group approached them.

    He said he was carrying a pistol at the time; two others from his cohort were also carrying firearms, according to the complaint. They then had a face-to-face confrontation about who was allowed to sell drugs at the encampment.

    The dispute soon led to a shootout when, according to the Illinois man, a man from the group that was already at Lake Street shot one of his associates in the chest. After that, “everyone else” started shooting, he said in his statement. 

    The complaint says he fired “once or twice” until his gun jammed and he fell backwards into another tent. He then got up and hopped a fence to run away. He added that he sold his gun to someone on Lake Street for $200.

    According to the charging documents, investigators also spoke to a member of the Lake Street group, who claimed a member of the Illinois party fired first. The witness said that the woman who was shot was not part of the dispute and was instead inside of an adjacent tent when shots broke out.

    The Illinois man was charged with first-degree riot and illegal possession of a firearm. The criminal complaint says he has multiple felony convictions in Illinois, including robbery, damage to property and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is currently in custody.

    The encampment was shut down after the mass shooting; Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the city council had been trying to clear the site, which is on a private lot, for months. The city had issued owner Hamoudi Sabri nearly a dozen public health notices for drug paraphernalia, open fire, excessive debris and lack of sanitation.

    On Tuesday, a judge granted the city’s request for a temporary restraining order against Sabri. In response to the decision, Sabri said he still plans to hold the city “accountable,” and added his priority is “the dignity and safety of our unhoused neighbors.”

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  • South Minneapolis mass shooting suspect arrested, charged with murder

    Minneapolis police arrested a 24-year-old man for a mass shooting last month that killed one and injured six others.

    Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says officers took Trayveion Green into custody near the 600 block of First Avenue North at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Tuesday.

    Green was charged with seven counts of second-degree murder, six of those counts being for attempted murder. He is the third person to be charged in the Aug. 26 shooting. Tiffany Martindale, 30, and Ryan Quinn, 33, were both charged with aiding an offender.

    Minneapolis police say the shooting happened shortly before 1:30 p.m. at Clinton Avenue and East 29th Street, just east of Interstate 35. The suspected shooter fired approximately 30 rounds from a high-velocity 223 rifle, according to O’Hara.

    Investigators identified the suspect vehicle as a gray Honda Civic with no rear license plate after looking at dashcam footage provided by a witness, according to the criminal complaint. Officers were able to make out the front license plate of the vehicle and learned it was registered to Quinn.

    Police went to the Inver Grove Heights address listed on the registration shortly after the shooting and saw the Honda with the rear license plate reattached. Charges said Quinn was driving, and Martindale was in the front seat.

    Quinn told officers that he and Martindale had picked up a man, known to him as Bino —  later identified as Green — and driven him around the metro area, according to charges. He said Bino directed him to the area of the shooting, where they then “circled the block.” As they passed the area a second time, Bino told Quinn to stop the car. 

    Bino then got out of the car wearing a mask and holding a rifle, and started shooting into a crowd standing on the sidewalk, charges said. Bino got back into the Honda after shooting multiple rounds, which struck the seven people. Quinn and Martindale then dropped Bino off in north Minneapolis. 

    Charges say investigators were able to obtain subscriber information for Bino’s phone number that resulted in them identifying Bino as Green.

    Green’s bail has been set at $2 million. His next court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 21.

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    Minneapolis police say one of the five people injured during a mass shooting in the city near the Interstate 35W and Lake Street station on Monday has died. 

    Police Chief Brian O’Hara announced early Saturday afternoon that a 46-year-old man identified as Adam John Peterson had died earlier in the day. 

    The shooting happened around 11:10 a.m. on East Lake Street and Stevens Avenue. O’Hara said of the five men who were found hurt, one had “very serious” life-threatening injuries, three others had survivable injuries and another was grazed by a bullet. 

    No arrests have been made, as investigators are still trying to figure out what happened before shots were fired. Currently, police say they believe the shooting happened near the Greenway, and more shots were fired on the walkway near a highway off-ramp leading to both Lake Street and Stevens Avenue.

    That same day, another mass shooting happened at a now-cleared homeless encampment along the 2700 block of East Lake Street just after 10 p.m. There, a total of seven people were shot, including two in the head. On Friday, police announced that one of those victims, 30-year-old Jacinda Oakgrove, died Thursday at an area hospital. 

    O’Hara previously said investigators cannot rule out a connection between the two shootings at the encampments. Both incidents are believed to have been perpetrated by more than one shooter. The first shooting is believed to be a “quarrel” that “escalated to gunfire,” while the second, he said, is related to a narcotics dispute.  

    Anyone with information that may help investigators is asked to either contact Minneapolis police or CrimeStoppers. 

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    The city of Minneapolis is opening a neighborhood assistance center for anyone impacted by recent shootings and violence.

    “There has been a lot going on the community as far as violence that is traumatizing not just to the people directly impacted but to neighbors to the community in general,” said Chris Thokles, Director of Operations for the Minneapolis Health Department

    Two Mass shootings in south Minneapolis sparked the city to pool its resources, from mental health support, human trafficking prevention as well as help with drug addiction and homelessness in one place.

    “To really offer resources to folks in need not just recent victims to really anyone who needs resources right now,” said Thokles.

    The Family Partnership is providing the space and its open to anyone who needs it.

    “We have the Minneapolis Health Department mobile medical unit and folks can come and get some care for their physical self and meet with our nurses and nurse practitioner.  

    Inside we have all kinds of referrals we have snacks, water we have referrals for mental health we have referrals for our unhoused neighbors’ legal resources,” Thokles said.

    Minneapolis did the same thing after the shooting at Annunciation Church and School.

    It was well received, and city official say it needed again. 

    “Were just listening to neighbors and hear what they need and be responsive,” said Thokles.

    Whatever folks are going through the city wants to meet them where they are and connect them to services that can get them the help they need.

    The community help center is open through Sunday. Weekend hours are from 10am to 2pm, at the Family Partnership building at 15-27 East Lake Street.

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