Police investigate home invasion in south Minneapolis

Police are looking for a robber who broke into a south Minneapolis home Monday afternoon, threatened two men at gunpoint and left one man injured.

February 21, 2018 at 2:54AM

Police are looking for a robber who broke into a south Minneapolis home Monday afternoon, threatened two men at gunpoint and left one man injured.

No suspect information was given in an incident report. One of the victims, a 73-year-old man, told police that someone entered his house in the 2700 block of Aldrich Avenue S., in the Lowry Hill East neighborhood, just after 5 p.m. Monday, according to the report. The victim told police that he and another man, 67, were threatened with a gun inside the house, the report said.

It wasn't immediately clear what was taken.

The 73-year-old victim was injured in the incident and received medical treatment at the scene.

By Tuesday morning, authorities had not reported an arrest in the case.

No further information was 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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