Federal brokers stand close to the positioning of a capturing Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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A person shot Saturday morning in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers has died, federal and native officers mentioned.
The incident, the third capturing involving Border Patrol brokers in Minneapolis this yr, occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Central Time on the town’s South Aspect when federal regulation enforcement officers had been conducting a focused operation in opposition to a person the Division of Homeland Safety mentioned was undocumented and armed, and needed for “violent assault.” One other particular person approached the federal brokers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, DHS mentioned.
“The officers tried to disarm the suspect however the armed suspect violently resisted,” DHS mentioned in its assertion.
DHS mentioned the person who approached them had two gun magazines and no identification. The federal officer feared for his life and fired defensive photographs. The company didn’t publicly determine the useless man.
“This appears like a scenario the place a person needed to do most injury and bloodbath regulation enforcement,” the company mentioned.
However Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned at a information convention Saturday afternoon that the sufferer was a 37-year-old white male resident of the town who’s believed to be a U.S. citizen. His solely recognized interplay with police was for visitors tickets, O’Hara mentioned.
“We imagine he’s a lawful gun proprietor with a allow to hold,” O’Hara mentioned.
The person was shot a number of occasions, presumably by a couple of federal officer, O’Hara mentioned. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Heart the place he was pronounced useless.
“We weren’t supplied any public security assertion across the incident…” he mentioned.
Renee Macklin Good, 37 and a mom of three, was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in her SUV as she drove away after partially blocking a Minneapolis road.
On Jan. 14, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celia, a Venezuelan nationwide, was shot within the leg by immigration officers throughout an altercation with immigration officers.
“Minnesota has had it,” Gov. Tim Walz posted on social media this morning. “That is sickening.”
Walz publish that he spoke with somebody from the White Home after the capturing and referred to as on President Trump to finish the immigration operation instantly.
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