Sources now tell us that a Minneapolis police officer has
died in this shooting just South of downtown.
This happening right around 5:30 this evening,
just a few blocks South of downtown at 22nd and
Blaisdell.
Minneapolis police confirming at least four people and two for
civilians and two police officers have been injured.
But again, our sources are telling us tonight also that
one of those officers has died.
That is the very latest information we have.
But it's a very active scene.
There's still an active investigation going on
and there is still some consistency that there is still
a component of this that is yet to be resolved.
Yeah, a huge law enforcement presence at the scene with
the FBI,
State Patrol, many other agencies like Hennepin County Sheriff's Office
there as well.
Rob Olson has been there for more than an hour
now and we want to check with Rob to see
what you know.
And I know some of the some of this is
still very limited.
We haven't, we haven't got all gotten a lot confirmed
with MPD yet.
No. And they've not had a press conference or news
conference or or put out any of that in any
way,
shape or form at this point.
And we are kind of locked in now in this
area that we're in.
They've moved the perimeter to where we parked initially is
now off limits.
So we cannot go up and down Franklin as we
did when we first got here to check out different
sides of the scene.
I'm kind of limited to basically this street here of
LaSalle where it becomes Blaisdell Ave.
So and the same people that have been here for
the last
hour and a half or so or that I've been
here are still here as well.
And I will tell you this,
there seems to be, as Randy mentioned,
a component of this that is still ongoing and unresolved.
But it also seems out here that the the heightened
tension is starting to drop as well.
About 1/2 hour ago I counted in this in this
parking lot that I can no longer get into
is there were probably 10/11/12 ambulances staged in that area,
which is why they blocked that parking lot off for
the staging.
Many of them in the last 10 minutes or so
have departed.
There's still 3 on the street right here to the
side of me.
And here I got to help
let this guy go through.
So there's still officers as you see going in and
out,
a couple of left coming out in and out this
area,
A SWAT vehicle that is down there.
Another one just pulled up over here.
There have been two there.
Yes. I still see two police drones in the air
behind me over top of what is an apartment building
or a couple of apartment buildings on the South side
of this park. Nicolette Clinic on the corner.
And that is apparent apparently,
you know where this the bulk of this took place.
There's other people here that are telling me it's unconfirmed,
but that they had heard or seen about some sort
of something that started over on the Nicollet side and
worked its way over to this area.
So somebody else told me that they did see gunfire
outside,
but then, you know, we're hearing information about
victims deceased found inside. So again,
we're still trying to sort all that out.
But again, this is a a huge perimeter stretching for
several blocks.
And what's bigger though, is just the amount of police
response,
as I mentioned, the number of ambulances,
but the number of police cars,
that seems to have thinned a little bit as well
as some have departed.
So that tells you that something is sort of settling
down a little bit or heading towards a resolution,
but there still remains a massive number of police officers,
sheriff's deputies, and as you mentioned earlier,
the FBI representative that we've seen walking around here,
ATF now I see right down the street as well.
So again, still a lot of this that is is
not resolved and we're waiting to get that update from
Minneapolis police.
But again, now we are panned in and so we
can't really wander as we did earlier to try to
track that down.
So again, we'll keep you updated out here.
Still a, a, a big area cordoned off and a
lot of police officers here,
but fewer than there were before,
fewer ambulances than there were before.
So we take that is a a positive sign towards
a, a lessening, certainly a,
a potential danger or towards a resolution here.
We'll keep you posted here all night.
For now, back to you.
OK Thanks, Rob. We'll come back to you in just
a little while.
And that is one thing that we're still trying to
get some information on is the status of the shooter.
Yeah. And we also, the unfortunate number that we're dealing
with tonight is 6.
Our Courtney Godfrey is at HCMC tonight.
Courtney, we do know that we have confirmation of the
one Minneapolis police officer has died in this.
And we have 4 civilians injured,
another officer injured. You're there.
Tell us what that scene has been like over the
course of the last hour and a half.
Yeah, Randy. Clearly a somber scene down here as a
law enforcement officials continue to show up.
We've got Hennepin County sheriff's deputies and police officers who
continue to show up not only to block the road
in the area around the ambulance Bay here at the
emergency room at HCMC, but also to come be with
their brothers and sisters in law enforcement.
It's also shift change down here at the hospital,
and we've seen several emergency room medical personnel leaving and
even EMS workers coming in for their next shift.
And we've seen them and heard them check in with
each other.
Are you OK? How are you doing?
And clearly the trauma takes a toll not only on
the law enforcement community here,
but on the medical workers who are tasked with saving
these lives,
trying to save these lives,
and trying to render medical aid to the many victims
in this situation.
I ran into an emergency room doctor,
one of the top emergency room doctors here at HCMC,
as she was coming in
and I said, how you doing?
And she said I just got called in.
So clearly it's all hands on deck
as they deal with this,
with this crisis situation down here at the hospital.
But as you can see,
they have blocked off the area around the emergency room.
There is a number of law enforcement vehicles and you
can see the crime tape blocking off
7th St. here in between Park and Chicago downtown.
So they are securing this area.
They've pushed us back a couple of times.
They don't want us to get too close.
That ambulance Bay back there is where they bring in
the victims.
It's where they will bring in any injured law enforcement,
any and and that deceased member
of law enforcement. That's where they would have come in
and that's where they will be leaving.
So that's where we usually see law enforcement lined up
ready to stand watch over their fellow law enforcement officer.
But for right now, just a lot of standing around
and waiting as we continue to see law enforcement officials
coming in and out of Hennepin Healthcare.
It is a tragic scene we've seen way too much
of in the last handful of years.
So thank you, Courtney. Appreciate you on the scene there.
And Governor Walls tweeting out tonight that the State Patrol
is at the scene assisting Minneapolis police and more resources
are on standby to help as they are needed.
He also said that he is praying for all first
responders working to keep the community safe.
And Senator Klobuchar also tweeting out her condolences,
saying she's devastated to learn about the MPD officer killed
and another critically injured tonight as they were working to
keep our community safe.
John and I are praying for both their families and
all of those impacted in this tragedy.
All right, we continue. As you can see,
we have crews on this
working diligently to try and get as much information as
we can.
What we know again, so far earlier this evening in
Minneapolis,
just South of downtown, if you're not that familiar with
it,
along Blaisdell there, there was a shooting of some sort
that involved Minneapolis police officers and some civilians.
We do know that two civilians are dead.
We don't know the extent of the other
four injured. We do know that one Minneapolis police officer
died during this hail of gunfire as well.
We are trying to figure out what the status of
that scene is right now because officers are
classifying as still active, still very active.
And then we have a number,
as you saw, of officers coming to the hospital now
to stand watch.
And so we will continue to cover this.
We will break into programming when we do have updates
because we are expecting Minneapolis police and the police chief
to give us some more information.
At some point, we will break into programming on FOX
9:00.
But you can always keep up with updates on
fox9.com and FOX Local. And of course,
our local news begins at 9:00 tonight.
I'll send you back to programming for now.