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   Dozens of Minneapolis Native residents and city officials gathered at   
   Cedar Avenue Field Park Thursday morning to grieve five people killed in   
   shootings over the last two days.   
      
   Mourners gathered around fires and a drum circle and prayed for an end to   
   the recent string of violence.   
      
   Longtime neighborhood resident Carrie Day Aspinwall led a prayer.   
      
   “I've been in this neighborhood, I've been in this park all my life,”   
   Aspinwall said. “We took care of one another, and that's what we need to   
   do today.”   
      
   Minneapolis police are investigating three shootings that killed five and   
   injured two. The first happened late Tuesday, near the corner of 25th   
   Street and Bloomington Avenue. Three people were killed: a 17-year-old   
   boy, a 20-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man. Two shootings in the   
   neighborhood Wednesday left two more people dead: a man in his 30s and a   
   man in his 50s.   
      
   Minnesota NowFatal shootings upend American Indian Month celebrations   
   Investigation continuesMinneapolis police continue to investigate   
   shootings that left five people dead in less than 24 hours   
   Police believe none of the shootings were random, and said the first two   
   appear to be connected. Police Chief Brian O’Hara said he believes the   
   victims of the first two shootings were Native.   
      
   Vin Dionne is a leader of the Many Shields Society, a Minneapolis   
   organization for Native men. He said the violence has rocked the tight-   
   knit community.   
      
   “When we lose one young person before their time, that's devastating to   
   us. That's devastating to our future, that creates a lot of trauma,”   
   Dionne said.   
      
   Dionne said he was close with one of the men who was killed and had   
   recently talked to him about joining Many Shields.   
      
   “We have to heal,” Dionne said. “We have to come together. We have to   
   support one another.”   
      
   In a statement Wednesday, Red Lake Nation leaders said they are in touch   
   with city officials and adding security patrols at the Mino Bimaadiziwin   
   apartment building, near where one of the shootings took place. The   
   statement said counselors from the Native American Community Clinic will   
   also be available at the Red Lake Nation Embassy and the Mino Bimaadiziwin   
   Wellness Clinic.   
      
   The community had been planning celebrations to kick off American Indian   
   Month, including a parade, an Indian Health Board groundbreaking ceremony   
   and a powwow. Those were canceled Thursday in light of the shootings.   
      
   O’Hara said extra police are on patrol in the neighborhood.   
      
   “We're doing everything that we can both to deploy all available law   
   enforcement resources — federal, state and local — to address the   
   investigation as well as to provide presence,” O’Hara said at Thursday’s   
   community gathering.   
      
   No arrests have been made. O’Hara said investigators are following leads.   
      
   https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/01/minneapolis-native-community-   
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