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   CNN — Minneapolis police are searching for motive as they investigate a pair   
   of shootings Thursday night that left two people dead – including an officer   
   hailed as a hero – and also wounded four others.   
      
   Minneapolis Officer Jamal Mitchell, 36, was one of two people killed by a   
   gunman who ambushed the officer as he attempted to provide medical assistance   
   to people who were injured, authorities said. The suspect was also killed.   
      
   Another officer was injured, and authorities later found three other civilians   
   who had been shot, one of whom died at the scene.   
      
   “There are not words to appropriately describe this tragedy,” Minneapolis   
   Police Chief Brian O’Hara said Friday morning. “It’s the worst call a   
   police chief can receive.”   
      
   A Minneapolis police officer and a firefighter suffered non-life-threatening   
   injuries and have since been treated and released, police said. The other two   
   victims include a person who was shot in his vehicle outside of an apartment   
   and another who was    
   found in an apartment, Minneapolis police said. They were still in the   
   hospital Friday afternoon.   
      
   Across the country, the US has suffered at least 180 mass shootings in just   
   the first five months of this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.   
   Like CNN, the archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more   
   people are shot, not    
   including the shooter.   
      
   And in the first four months of this year, at least 136 officers have been   
   shot in the line of duty – including 20 who were killed, according to the   
   National Fraternal Order of Police.   
      
   “This cannot be the norm,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday night.   
      
   Here’s what we know about the killings and the investigation so far:   
      
   How police say the shootings unfolded   
   Police initially responded to a call about two people shot at an apartment   
   building in Minneapolis’ Whittier neighborhood around 5:15 p.m. Thursday.   
   When officers arrived, someone shot at them immediately, and the officers   
   returned fire, Assistant    
   Police Chief Katie Blackwell said.   
      
   As Mitchell neared the scene of the double shooting, he spotted injured   
   individuals nearby who were in need of medical assistance, Minnesota Bureau of   
   Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said at a press conference   
   Thursday night. While aiding    
   the injured male suspect, the suspect pulled out a gun and continued to shoot   
   Mitchell after he fell to the ground, police said in a news release Friday.   
      
   The officer was shot about a block and a half to two blocks away from the   
   apartment, authorities said Thursday night. Mitchell was taken to a local   
   hospital where he later died.   
      
   Witness Reuben Molina was watching TV with his girlfriend in a third-floor   
   apartment when he heard a “bang.”   
      
   “Then we heard it again and again and again in rapid succession, and then me   
   and her were like, ‘Oh, that’s gunshots,’” Molina told CNN affiliate   
   WCCO. He said he thought the sounds came from the floor below them.   
      
   Molina said they left the apartment to see what was happening. He told WCCO he   
   kept hearing gunshots and saw “people shooting,” but couldn’t tell   
   whether those opening fire were officers or civilians.   
      
   It’s still unclear exactly how many officers exchanged fire with the   
   suspect, as authorities have given differing accounts.   
      
   “When officers arrived, they received gunfire immediately and they exchanged   
   gunfire,” Blackwell said. In a news release Friday, the department likewise   
   said: “Responding officers exchanged gunfire with that gunman.”   
      
   But Evans said only one officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect.   
      
   “A second officer, I should note, arrived shortly after officer Mitchell was   
   injured and shot and exchanged gunfire with the subject at that time,” Evans   
   said Thursday night. “He was injured in that gunfire exchange.”   
      
   CNN has reached out to the Minneapolis Police Department and the Minnesota   
   Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for more information.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/01/us/minneapolis-shooting-officer-k   
   lled-investigation/index.html   
      
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