Victim dies four days after shooting during south Minneapolis dispute

July 27, 2021 at 10:23PM
A man has died four days after he was shot during a dispute on East Lake Street in south Minneapolis, police said. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A man has died four days after he was shot during a dispute on East Lake Street in south Minneapolis, police said.

The man in his 50s was shot early Friday morning and was taken by private vehicle to HCMC at 3:30 a.m., police said in a news release. He was believed to have been shot in the area of 12th Avenue and Lake Street, where it is believed "that the victim and another person got into a dispute which erupted into gunfire and the victim was struck."

The victim died on Tuesday, police said. His identity has not yet been released. It is the city's 54th homicide of the year.

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Abby Simons is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Public Safety Editor. Her team covers crime and courts across the metro. She joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2008 and previously reported on crime, courts and politics.

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