Gunman kills 1, wounds 6 others in daylight barrage on Minneapolis street

One man is dead and six other people were injured in a barrage of gunfire during a brazen midday shooting Tuesday in south Minneapolis, across the street from a high school and near a busy commercial corridor.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that around 1:30 p.m. a suspect stepped out of a vehicle and shot the victims, who were standing in a group on the sidewalk across the street from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in the 2900 block of 4th Avenue S.

About 30 rounds were fired from a high-velocity .223-caliber gun before the suspect fled in a vehicle. At least one person in the group was targeted, O’Hara said.

Five men and one woman were wounded, he said. Three were in critical condition, but all are expected to survive.

O’Hara said he believes the shooter acted alone, and “we have substantial pieces of evidence that we are reviewing, and I feel confident that we will be able to identify this person.”

“Our city experienced a deeply troubling act of violence. In the middle of the day, a gunman armed with a high-velocity … rifle opened fire on a group of people on the sidewalk on the block behind me directly across the street from a Catholic high school,“ the chief said. ”The gunman wound up killing one person and wounding six others that were standing on the sidewalk."

O’Hara called the firepower used in the shootings “completely sickening.”

He said some students were inside the high school when the shooting occurred, but none was injured.

“It’s deeply, deeply troubling to have something like this happen right outside of the school,” he said.

On Tuesday afternoon, officers taped off part of the block near E. 29th Street and Clinton Avenue, just north of Lake Street. The shooting took place on the street next to the Urban Ventures nonprofit and the high school.

Craig Lassig was shopping inside the AutoZone, 2940 Clinton Av., when he heard multiple gunshots about 1:30 p.m. and then noticed people running outside the store.

Lassig said the gunfire appeared to come from the north, closer to the nearby Midtown Greenway. He said store employees were about to lock up the building when a man who looked to be suffering from gunshot wounds from his face and arm ran up and pounded on the windows. He was let inside. A photo from the scene showed the man holding a cloth to his bloodied face as two employees attempted to help him.

Jonathan Garcia, 29, was walking near the shooting scene with his year-old son when he heard about 20 shots fired and saw four victims. One was a man with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head and was down on the sidewalk. Another victim was a woman with a severe arm wound, he said.

Alejandra Gonzalez, 26, translated for Garcia and said he and his friends tried to help the man shot in the head.

“They were pretty shaken up,” Gonzalez said. “They wanted to help the best they could, but they just felt like there was nothing they could do.”

A man with Gonzalez who declined to give his name shared a phone video that showed the severe wounds of the man shot in the head and the woman hit in the arm.

Lassig, who lives in the area, said he and neighbors have heard several outbursts in gunfire recently.

Isidra Irlanda Nicolas was working at La Única Market when she heard at least four gunshots. She said she saw a man walk past with a wound to the upper chest area.

Blood spatters could be seen on the sidewalk at the scene.

Tuesday’s incident is the fourth mass shooting reported in Minneapolis and fifth in Minnesota this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which tracks such incidents from various publicly available sources. The state has averaged 12 a year since 2022. While no standard definition of a mass shooting exists, the Gun Violence Archive defines them as an incident with four or more victims shot, not including the perpetrator.

The 2025 incidents include the June political shootings in Brooklyn Park that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in Champlin. In late April, four people were killed and a fifth was wounded in what law enforcement has said was a gang-related shooting in Minneapolis.

The other two incidents – one in January and the other in June – in total killed one person and wounded eight.