Minneapolis police said Friday that a man who was shot on the city's South Side overnight has died of his injuries, and an earlier homicide victim was identified as a northern Minnesota man.
In the most recent case, officers responded to a report of gunfire in the 2900 block of S. Grand Avenue, near the Midtown Greenway, just before 11 p.m. Thursday and found the 23-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds, according to police and scanner reports.
According to emergency radio transmissions, the man had been shot twice in the chest. A police report said he was sitting in a vehicle when someone approached and "fired several shots into it."
Officers started CPR until paramedics arrived and took the man to HCMC, where he died sometime Friday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
Police spent the next several hours canvassing the area around the Greenway after a witness reported seeing a suspect running from the shooting scene, according to the report. A police dog was later summoned to the scene.
The man's name and age will be released after an autopsy.
News of his death followed an announcement earlier Friday identifying a man who was shot and killed on Lake Street earlier in the week.
Medical examiners say that Lawrence Dean Hart Jr. died of multiple gunshot wounds and deemed his death a homicide. A report said Hart, 28, was a resident of Cass Lake, in northern Minnesota.
