2-year-old struck by wayward bullet in north Minneapolis neighborhood

No suspects had been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.

September 17, 2019 at 9:26PM

A toddler was struck by a stray bullet that sailed into the backyard of a Lind-Bohanon neighborhood home late Monday, according to Minneapolis police and community members.

About 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, officers were sent to North Memorial Medical Center after the infant was dropped off with a reported gunshot wound to the arm or the hand. They were told the shooting had happened about half an hour earlier at a residence in the 4500 block of N. Aldrich Avenue, according to a police incident report.

The report did not identify the young victim, but community members said he was a 2-year-old boy who was in the backyard with his mother when gunfire erupted. Police said the victim is expected to survive.

A department spokesman said Tuesday afternoon that the investigation was still ongoing, but that no suspect had been arrested or charged yet.

No further details about the case were immediately available.

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.

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