Timeline to tragedy

July 8, 2012 at 12:21PM

Aug. 7, 2011, 3:27 p.m. at 22nd and Dupont Avenues N.: Josiah Taylor, identified by police as a Y.N.T. member, is shot. He says Juwon "Skitz" Osborne, a Scarface member, did it.

Sept. 12, 2011, 8:22 p.m., 2950 Dupont Av. N.: Osborne is shot and wounded. Taylor is arrested but not charged.

Sept. 19, 2011, 7:26 p.m., 2954 Dupont Av. N.: Osborne is fatally shot. His friends form "Skitz Squad."

March 5, 10:40 p.m., 2502 Dupont Av. N.: Two Skitz Squad members are arrested in a series of shootings.

June 13, 10:50 a.m., Juvenile Detention Center, 510 Park Av. S.: Osborne's half brother is beaten by Y.N.T. members.

June 25, evening, North Side convenience store: A Skitz Squad member points a gun at Y.N.T. associates.

June 25, 11:50 p.m., 4501 Camden Av. N.: Shots are fired at the house, a Skitz Squad hangout.

June 26, 2:38 a.m., 2524 Bryant Av. N.: Shots are fired into the home, where a Y.N.T. member is.

June 26, 8:35 a.m., 4515 Bryant Av. N.: Shots are fired into the home, where Y.N.T. members are; one hits and kills Nizzel George, 5.

June 28: Two teens who had been staying at the Skitz Squad hangout are arrested in Brooklyn Center in Nizzel's death.

Source: Public records, Minneapolis Police Department internal report1

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