3 Native People Dead in Mass Shooting on Minneapolis Southside, No Arrests Made
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara talks to the media after a deadly shooting the night before on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 in Minneapolis. Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Police Department.
By Darren Thompson
Minneapolis—Last night, a mass shooting on Minneapolis’s Southside left three people dead with others seriously injured and police have not yet apprehended a suspect as of press time.
Police reported that the shooting happened before midnight on Tuesday in the city’s Phillips neighborhood, near the 2500 block of Bloomington Avenue which is near the Minneapolis American Indian Health Board, and they found a total of five victims, three of them deceased at the scene and the others sent to the Hennepin County Medical Center. Various reports on the condition of anonymity to LRI Media state that all of the victims were Native.
MPR News reported that Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara said the shooting was targeted and all victims were adults. “There are families that are suffering tonight, that are grieving, and this is an absolutely senseless tragedy,” O’Hara said at a press conference early Wednesday morning.
No other information has been released to the public, including the circumstances that led to the shooting.
"Native on native violence is doing more damage to our communities than just about anything else,” said American Indian Movement (AIM) Twin Cities Chairman Mike Forcia to LRI Media. “Since the murder of George Floyd and the release of the U.S. Department of Justice report, Minneapolis police have received millions of dollars, but yet no restitution or reparations have been utilized to help the victims of that report.”
After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd in May 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a report that found that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) unlawfully discriminates against Black and Native American people in its enforcement activities.
Police and community members have asked anyone with information regarding the shooting to come forward to the police.
Updated: 2:00 PM
Wednesday afternoon, Minneapolis police are investigating the scene of another shooting that has left one dead on the 2100 block of South Cedar Avenue, near the Red Lake apartment complex near the Minneapolis American Indian Center. The victim’s identity has not been released to the public, but people are gathering in the lobby of the Red Lake apartment complex.
This is a developing story.
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Darren Thompson is the Director of Media Relations for the Sacred Defense Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He covers breaking news, Indigenous communities, and tribal sovereignty. He can be reached at darren@sacreddefense.org.