Crime

Minneapolis police are investigating three separate shootings that unfolded within about 20 minutes Thursday evening in different parts of the city, leaving three people wounded. Officers were first called around 6:29 p.m. to the 400 block of Taylor Street NE, then less than 10 minutes later to the 2000 block of West River Road, and finally at about 6:46 p.m. to the 800 block of East Franklin Avenue. Preliminary information indicates each scene involved a single victim and that all injuries are considered non-life-threatening at this point. Investigators say the shootings do not appear to be connected, and no arrests have been made. The cluster of incidents will add fuel to ongoing debates about whether Minneapolis’ current policing and violence-prevention strategies are containing everyday gunfire, especially as residents in very different neighborhoods see multiple crime scenes pop up almost simultaneously.

Andrew Jordan Thompson, 30, a bouncer at Rick’s Cabaret, has been charged with second-degree assault in the Oct. 5 shooting outside the downtown Minneapolis strip club that left a man hospitalized with potentially life‑threatening injuries; police have released the victim’s identity and said the incident occurred near 300 3rd St. S. Witness video and accounts show a fight in which Thompson was knocked down before he allegedly followed the pair clutching his waistband and fired a shot, then three more; officers recovered multiple shell casings and a live round, found handgun ammunition in Thompson’s apartment, and booked him into Hennepin County Jail where he is also being held on a 2023 Hopkins weapons case.