A man who crashed his car in north Minneapolis after being shot Saturday afternoon died later that night.

Police received numerous 911 calls about shots being fired and the car crash and responded to the 4600 block of N. Lyndale Avenue around 4:45 p.m., where they found a man with a gunshot wound.

He was taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale with critical injuries and died hours later.

"He had substantial injuries from being shot and crashing his car," police spokesman John Elder said Sunday.

Elder said a person of interest was arrested Saturday night but released.

The victim was in is 30s; Elder said his identity would be released by the county medical examiner's office.

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