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3 dead, no arrests made

3 dead, no arrests made

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minneapolis police are investigating back-to-back fatal shootings over the weekend involving a half-dozen people at two separate homeless encampments in the city.

As of Monday, no arrests had been made in the shootings that left a total of three dead. Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey linked recent shootings and other violence at the encampments to drugs. fentanyl.

The Minneapolis Police Department reported that the first shooting took place on Saturday, shortly before 4:45 a.m., at a homeless encampment approximately two miles southeast of the city center.

On the scene, the agency wrote in a statementThe agents located three men injured by gunshots. The victims were transported to a local hospital where one of the men died, police said. The condition of the other two victims was not immediately known Monday.

Homicide investigators said they were investigating what led up to the shooting, including the possibility that three suspects left the scene on foot. Investigators were also working to determine “what connection the three injured men had to the camp,” police wrote in a statement.

As of Monday morning, the three suspects had not been located.

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The second shooting took place the next day, in broad daylight, at another encampment along the railroad tracks, five miles southeast of the city center, police said. That camp is about three and a half miles southeast from the scene of the first triple shooting.

During the shooting, which took place around 2:20 p.m., unknown suspects shot three people in the field: two men and a woman. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.

The woman’s condition was not immediately known Monday morning.

On Sunday, police announced that three people were detained after the shooting, but were later acquitted and released. They did not give more details.

USA TODAY has contacted Minneapolis police.

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The identities of the victims are still unknown.

Police said they are not ruling out the possibility that both shootings are related and said the case remained under investigation.

“The cold-blooded murder of three people inside a campground tent is outrageous,” Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement Sunday. “All human life matters and the camps are not safe.”

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will release the identities of the victims and their official cause and manner of death, police said.

USA TODAY has contacted the medical examiner’s office.

‘The camps are not safe’

during a sunday press conference, Frey said Minneapolis has seen an increase in homicides and shootings around homeless encampments across the city.

“This is another incredibly tragic situation… it’s not a coincidence that this happened in homeless encampments,” Frey said. “We need to call a spade a spade. It’s not about a lack of shelter… the problems we’re seeing in terms of crime and violence have to do with fentanyl.”

The drug, a potentially deadly narcotic, is a synthetic opioid approved to treat pain, often mixed with cocaine and other illicit recreational drugs. In cases where a mixture of fentanyl and cocaine is not fatal, it could increase the likelihood that the user will develop an addiction.

Drug dealers use fentanyl as a cheap way to increase the potency of other drugs, Tom Doub, chief clinical and compliance officer at addiction treatment company American Addiction Centers, previously said. told the Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY network. Medicines are cheap to manufacture, which means they are cheaper to buy on the street.

Minneapolis City Councilman Jason Chavez told local media outlet KARE 11 that Frey rejected linking the violence to fentanyl, accusing the mayor of placing the blame on the city council.

‘We are seeing people who are evicted from their rental units end up in shelters or encampments. “That’s not a fentanyl problem,” Chavez said, according to KARE 11, while calling for a “housing first model.”

“If you can move someone into a small house with services, with mental health support, addiction services, an opportunity to have a job and a place to sleep at night, the likelihood that they will move to a permanent place and be stable has increased. That model works. Let’s do more of that in the city of Minneapolis,” Chavez said, according to KARE 11.

O’Hara said the department continues to address crime-related issues associated with homeless encampments and the city continues to offer resources. He did not give more details.

“To help end this cycle of violence exacerbated by narcotics and mental health issues, it is crucial that residents of these camps embrace the resources available,” O’Hara said.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on X @nataliealund.

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