Homicide detectives are pursuing several leads in the death of a young woman shot to death in south Minneapolis last weekend, a crime that unsettled neighbors and continued a surge in shootings citywide this year.

A postmortem examination revealed that Victoria Ann Day, of Minneapolis, had died of multiple gunshot wounds early Saturday, but little else. She was a week shy of her 24th birthday.

Her body was found about 1:21 a.m. in the alley behind a duplex in the 2200 block of 10th Avenue S. by officers summoned to the scene by reports of shots fired in the area. Nine minutes later, she was pronounced dead.

Police have offered few details publicly about the crime, including what Day was doing in the area at the time she was shot and whether they had established a motive. Detectives are exploring several possibilities, including whether she had gotten mixed up with a bad crowd, which set in motion a chain of events leading up to her death.

No arrests have been made.

The killing, the city's fifth homicide of the year, came amid an uptick in gun violence across Minneapolis.

As of April 18, 86 people had been shot, three-fourths of them in north Minneapolis, where the number shot jumped 170.83 percent since this time last year, from 24 to 65. Violent crimes such as aggravated assaults and robberies are also up, although the number of slayings has decreased from eight to five.

News of her Day's death prompted an outpouring of grief and sympathy on social media from relatives and friends, including her cousin Marissa Morrow, who described her as an outgoing young woman who had aspired to college and a career in construction.

Morrow said that Day, the youngest of two brothers and three sisters, "liked to be around her family."

"Her death has left a huge impact on our entire family; we are deeply hurt and saddened by her loss," her mother, Regina Dunkley, wrote in a brief obituary on GoFundMe, an online crowdfunding platform. "We are very determined and hopeful to be able to provide her with the proper burial service. She needs to be laid at rest peacefully. Anything will help at this time as we have nothing in place for her at the moment."

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