Police investigate BB-gun incidents in north Minneapolis

One woman was injured and windows of Metro Transit buses were shot out.

November 24, 2019 at 12:13AM

Police are investigating a string of BB-gun related incidents in Minneapolis' North Side late Friday that left one woman injured.

Windows were also shot out of Metro Transit buses, and a bus shelter at the corner of N. Plymouth and Emerson avenues was targeted in the hourlong attack, police said.

It was not immediately clear Saturday whether the incidents were connected.

A BB struck Wendy Puckett in the nose in the area of W. Broadway and N. Emerson avenues on Friday night.

Puckett, owner of Wendy's House of SOUL, was identified in a post on the eatery's Facebook page. The post said that Puckett was struck after leaving work Friday and would require surgery.

Investigators from the Minneapolis Police Department and Metro Transit police were reviewing surveillance video to try to identify suspects.

No one had been arrested as of Saturday evening.

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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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