Limo driver shot in attempted carjacking

The limo was picking up two men to drive to bars when the two passengers shot the driver in the back. He remains hospitalized.

October 14, 2012 at 12:24AM

A Minneapolis limousine driver remained hospitalized Saturday after two men trying to steal the limo shot the driver in the back Friday night.

The incident happened around 10:45 p.m. Friday in the 2700 block of 2nd Avenue S., after limo driver Celso Inamagua-Solis, 39, of Minneapolis picked up two passengers to go to bars, according to police. The two suspects tried to carjack the vehicle and when Inamagua-Solis didn't cooperate, they shot him in the back.

He was hospitalized at Hennepin County Medical Center with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. Police are still investigating; no arrests have been made yet.

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