MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – What started as a rally for a man shot and killed by Minneapolis police quickly took a turn for the worse after a mother of two was nearly hit by bullets while inside her apartment showing up to share her story this afternoon Saturday’s.
Arabella Yarbrough was cooking dinner for her children Wednesday night when she says Tekle Sundberg fired bullets into their home, nearly hitting them. Police responded and helped Yarbrough escape when, according to police, Sundberg also fired at the officers. That led to a six-hour standoff outside the building that lasted until MPD snipers killed the 20-year-old early the next morning.
“I literally had five minutes to live and he had six hours to choose life or death. The police said they didn’t want to kill him,” Yarbrough told Fox 9.
He confronted activists at a rally in support of Sundberg and against police brutality on Saturday. A Fox 9 news crew was at the scene.
Video: Mom shot by Tekle Sundberg disrupts rally, expresses anger at protesters
What started as a rally for a man shot and killed by Minneapolis police quickly took a turn after Arabella Yarbrough, the mother of two nearly hit by bullets while inside her apartment, came forward to share her story Saturday afternoon .
For Yarbrough, Sundberg’s case is different from other well-known Black people killed by police.
“This man was armed. George Floyd was not armed. Breonna Taylor was not armed. Amir Locke was armed and had his own guns, but they came into his home while he had a permit to carry and killed him. No. .. This man deliberately tried to kill us,” Yarbrough said.
Both Yarbrough and Sundberg’s family say things could have ended differently if he had been able to get the mental health support he needed. His parents, Cindy and Mark Sundberg, adopted Tekle from Ethiopia when he was just four years old.
“My heart goes out to that woman (Yarbrough). She went through a very traumatic event with those bullets going through her house,” Mark Sundberg said.
Along with their attorney, they sympathize with the terror Yarbrough felt that night, but say their son should still be here.
“It’s two different incidents. It’s the shots going through it (the wall) and why we’re here, when Tekle was shot,” Mark Sudberg said.
“We can do both. We can feel terrible for this woman, but also remember that Tekle should be here with us and he should be alive, and we can ask the Minneapolis Police Department to he’s doing better,” Sundberg family attorney Jeff said. Storms.
The Minneapolis city attorney’s office is in the process of reviewing body camera footage of the fatal encounter. It will be presented to the family first before being released to the public.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help Yarbrough.
In the meantime, the BCA is asking anyone with photos, videos or audio recordings of the incident—to share them with investigators through this website.
