Three Injured in Downtown Minneapolis Shooting Saturday

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Three people were wounded early Saturday in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis. One of the victims is currently in critical condition.

Minneapolis police officers working off-duty aired that shots were being fired in the area 3rd Street North and 1st Avenue North at about 1:53 a.m. Officers immediately located two adult victims, both suffering from gunshot wounds.

The victims were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) by ambulance.

The adult female victim is being treated for non-life threatening wounds. The second victim, an adult male, was shot multiple times and is currently in critical condition at HCMC, according to police.

At 3:32 a.m. officers were informed that a third victim had been treated and released for a graze wound from North Memorial Medical Center (NMMC). This male victim told police that he had been shot downtown.

Officers interviewed witnesses at the shooting scene and are checking with business owners in the area to see if the shooting was captured on surveillance cameras. No arrests have been made, according to a news release.

Officers from the First Precinct will be in the area of the shooting Saturday speaking with business owners and community members. Anyone with information is about this shooting, or any other crime is encouraged to speak with the officers.

Anyone with information is encouraged to text their tip in to 847411 (TIP411). Enter MPD, a space, and then the information. These text messages are assigned a tip number and the police department has no way of identifying the source of the information.

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