A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 44-year-old man was injured in a shooting Thursday evening in north Minneapolis, according to the Minneapolis Police Department.

A Burnsville woman has been sentenced in connection with the 2024 shooting death of a Minneapolis man after entering what is known as an Alford plea earlier this year.

A four-year independent review into the 2004 murder conviction of Philip Randall Vance has concluded with no recommendation to overturn the verdict, according to a newly released report from the Minnesota Attorney General’s Conviction Review Unit.

Saint Paul police are investigating a homicide after officers discovered a woman dead inside an apartment Friday afternoon.

A Dakota County grand jury has indicted Jacob John Audie, 36, of Hudson, Wisconsin, on one count of first-degree premeditated murder and one count of second-degree intentional murder in the April shooting death of his 72-year-old roommate, Michael Maurice Schille.

A devastating mass shooting unfolded at Annunciation Catholic Church in the Southwest neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday morning, August 27, 2025, during a school-wide Mass attended by students and faculty of the affiliated Annunciation Catholic School.

A Minneapolis man with a lengthy history of violent crime has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing a firearm.

A Dakota County jury has found 58-year-old Troy Michael Mitteness of Burnsville guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and intentional second-degree murder for the 2022 killing of his 82-year-old mother, Sandra Viola Mitteness.

Philip Jedidiah Wong, 27, of Little Canada, Minnesota, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the October 2023 murder of 53-year-old Jianqin Zhang, a woman from China, at an Eagan hotel.

The Girlfriend of the suspect wanted in connection with the stabbing death of 21-year-old Daniel Isaac Aguilar, who was found dead on a sidewalk in Apple Valley in the early morning hours of July 6, 2025, has been charged with aiding an offender in connection with the fatal stabbing.

A month after a tragic daytime shooting that claimed the life of an 11-year-old boy, Minneapolis Police announced this morning the arrest of a 16-year-old male in connection with the murder of Amir Lamar Atkins in Apple Valley.

A multi-agency law enforcement operation unfolded in an Apple Valley neighborhood Monday morning as authorities executed a search warrant connected to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis over the weekend.

A Minneapolis man has been officially charged with second-degree intentional murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Daniel Isaac Aguilar of Apple Valley in the early morning hours of July 6, 2025.

A 36-year-old Hudson, Wisconsin man has been charged with second-degree intentional murder in the shooting death of his 72-year-old roommate in South St. Paul, according to a press release issued Monday evening by Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena.

We have learned that the police activity on January 1, 2025, at the Cedar Commons Apartments in Bloomington, Minnesota, was connected to a search warrant at an apartment as part of an ongoing homicide investigation tied to a shooting in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Casimir Semlak, 20, has pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder (drive-by shooting) in connection with the May 2022 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Anthony Skelley.

A Lakeville man has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder following the gruesome death of his sister and her unborn child, Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena announced on Thursday, January 9, 2025.

A West St. Paul man convicted of fatally stabbing his housemate at an adult group home has been sentenced to 367 months in prison.

A Dakota County grand jury has indicted 57-year-old Troy Michael Mitteness of Burnsville on charges of premeditated first-degree murder and intentional second-degree murder in connection with the 2022 death of his mother.

Mikayla Empey, the 22-year-old woman charged with third-degree felony murder following the fentanyl overdose death of Lenore Ann Richard, 65, in January 2022, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December 2025 in this case.