COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in arms approached another encouraging milestone Monday: 150 million Americans fully vaccinated.
Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune
Minneapolis police Sgt. Paul Albers checked the area Monday near where Friday’s shootings occurred in the Dinkytown neighborhood. He was looking to see if local businesses had security cameras.
Five people were shot near the corner of 14th Avenue SE. and 4th Street on Friday night, and three of the victims were U students. More officers from the Minneapolis Police Department and the University of Minnesota's police force will begin patrolling Dinkytown this week.
00:58Thanks to high vaccination rates, summer weather and the lifting of Minneapolis and St. Paul mask mandates, June has marked a reanimation ofMinnesota's urban core after more than a year of COVID-induced inactivity.
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