The man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center where he later died, Minneapolis Police Department spokesman Garrett Parten said. “This is not the outcome we hoped for or desired,” Parten said at the media briefing. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation, a spokeswoman for the agency confirmed. The events began around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when police were called to an apartment building near the intersection of Cedar and Franklin avenues in the city’s Seward neighborhood for shots fired inside the building. A woman who lived in an apartment next to which the man was hiding told police that the bullets went through the wall of the third-floor unit in the building on 21st Avenue S. Officers arrived and heard more gunshots and debris exploding from the wall, said Parten. The police rescued the woman and the two children who were with her. Others in the building were also taken to safety and some in nearby homes were also evacuated, he said. Several nearby streets were closed during the six-hour ordeal as law enforcement tried to bring the man to book. Efforts included using a loudspeaker to tell the man to “leave with his hands up,” Parten said. Police also told the man to check his phone for calls and voicemails from his parents. Law enforcement also brought the man’s parents to the scene in hopes of getting him to surrender. At approximately 4:30 a.m. Thursday, police shot the man. Police have not said why they shot the man. This is a developing story. Check back with StarTribune.com for updates.
