At least 13 people were injured, five in a critical way, in two shots which broke out over a period of 12 hours in the homeless camps in Minneapolis with the mayor of the city saying that he would not be surprised if they were linked.
The shots scored the fourth and fifth mass shots on Monday to perform in Minneapolis in the past three weeks, including one on August 27 at the Annunciation Catholic School which left two people and 21 people injured.
“It’s tragic. It’s horrible. It is unacceptable and, unfortunately, it is not surprising,” said Mayor Jacob Frey at a press conference on Tuesday.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said that the last mass shooting of the city took place on Monday evening during a notorious homeless camp in the south-east of Minneapolis, during which eight people were slaughtered and around 30 shots were fired.
“Here we are once again following a mass shot. This is not normal,” said O’hara.
O’Hara said that the shooting at the home -shelled camp on South 28th Avenue and East Lake Street had occurred around 10 p.m. local time. He said that an officer working in a nearby target store was approached by several people “who run and told him that there were shots at the camp”.
“The officer left the store and heard shots from the camp area,” said O’hara.
When he arrived, police found five people injured, including two people, a man and a woman, discovered inside tents suffering from bullets, said O’Hara. He said three other victims of gunshots presented themselves in their own hospitals.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, and the chief of police Brian O’hara, brief journalists, September 16, 2025, about a shooting during a homeless camp who made eight people injured.
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O’Hara said that at least four of the victims had undergone deadly ball wounds.
The chief said that several shell envelopes had been recovered at the scene, which led the investigators to believe that someone inside the camp exchanged gunshots with the shooter who targeted the camp.
O’Hara said that in addition to the shooting, a fire broke out in one of the tents while the police were on the scene and the firefighters were called upon to turn off the fire.
No arrest was announced during the shooting.
O’Hara said the detectives were investigating the possibility that the shooting was linked to previous shots in a nearby homeless camp who made five injured people, including one in a deadly state. He said the previous shooting had taken place just after 11 a.m. near the intersection of East Lake Street and Stevens Avenue.
“Although the investigation is still very, very preliminary, it is certainly something that we cannot exclude, and, of course, it is something we consider,” said O’Hara.
Asked about the possible link between the two shots, Frey added: “We do not know with certainty, but I would not be surprised.”
Frey said the city has been trying for months to release the homeless camp at South 28th Avenue and East Lake Street, the places of the shooting on Monday evening. He said that the camp is on private property and that city attempts to erase it were met by the owner of the property.
“These homeless camps are not sure for the people who are there, and they are not sure for the surrounding neighborhood. With this one, we have been saying this for months. We have encountered resistance to try to clean this particular camp,” said Frey.
In addition to the shooting of the Annunciation Catholic School, in which the suspect, Robin Westman, 23, died by suicide, the Minneapolis police investigated a mass shooting of August 26 who made a dead man and five other people injured in the southwest of Minneapolis.
At the time, O’Hara said the shooter approached a group of people standing at the corner of East 29th Street and Clinton Avenue Sud and sparked a barrier at least 30 shots with a rifle of high power before fleeing.
No arrest has been announced.
Jessica Gorman from ABC News contributed to this report.
