(Reuters) -A number of individuals have been struck by gunfire that killed as many as three, together with a police officer and a suspect, within the U.S. metropolis of Minneapolis on Thursday, metropolis authorities mentioned.
Three others together with one other police officer and a firefighter have been additionally injured on the scene, authorities added. Native media earlier mentioned that as many as 4 have been killed by the gunfire.
The motive behind the assault remains to be beneath investigation, authorities mentioned.
The Minneapolis Police Division earlier mentioned on social media that officers have been “responding to an active incident” through which six individuals, two of them cops, have been “reported injured.”
“This continues to be a fluid situation,” the police division mentioned, urging members of the general public to keep away from an space of the Whittier neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, essentially the most populous metropolis and capitol of the state of Minnesota.
The neighborhood is residence to the Minneapolis Institute of Artwork and the Minneapolis Faculty of Artwork and Design.
Minneapolis tv station KMSP, a Fox broadcast affiliate, earlier reported that six individuals had been shot, together with two cops and 4 civilians, and that one officer and two different individuals have been lifeless. The station cited unnamed regulation enforcement sources.
CBS affiliate WCCO-TV mentioned the suspected shooter was additionally killed and a second police officer was critically wounded.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported {that a} 28-year-old police officer was killed and one other was listed in crucial situation after an change of gunfire with the suspect. It mentioned 4 different individuals have been mentioned to have been struck by gunshots in an space round an condominium constructing within the Whittier neighborhood.
The newspaper mentioned the bloodshed would mark the primary Minneapolis police officer shot and killed within the line of responsibility in additional than 20 years.
ABC affiliate KSTP reported one officer was lifeless and one other hospitalized, whereas a number of civilians have been wounded by gunfire.
