A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Monday night near the Federal Reserve building in downtown Minneapolis, police said.
Officers responded to a shooting just after 9 p.m. near the Federal Reserve Bank building on Hennepin Avenue at N. 1st Street and found the teen had been shot.
A group of teens had been loitering in the area, and at some point a fight broke out, police said.
One of the teens pulled out a gun and shot the boy, police said.
“This is a terrible tragedy,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement. “When teenagers have access to guns, conflicts can turn deadly. One young life is lost, and others are forever changed. It’s heartbreaking.”
O’Hara added that the boy who died at a hospital had been the victim of a shooting in the past and recently was a suspect in another.
No arrests have been made.
The boy’s death marked the eighth homicide in Minneapolis in the past week, including a shooting in which four people were killed in a shooting police said was gang-related.
