MINNEAPOLIS — Three men are now charged with multiple felonies in connection with a shootout where bullets struck several homes and shattered a window at the MPD fourth precinct.
Criminal complaints filed in Hennepin County describe the allegations against 20-year-old Davion Lazarick Gaines, 21-year-old Makeiyen Lashaun Thompson and 29-year-old Troy Teasley. Gaines is charged with riot while armed with a dangerous weapon, reckless discharge of a firearm and possessing a machine gun or short barreled shotgun, which are all felonies. Thompson is also charged with riot and reckless discharge, while Teasley is charged with riot and fleeing a police officer.
Prosecutors say around 12:30 a.m. on July 26 several MPD officers were standing outside the 4th precinct building at 1925 Plymouth Ave. N when multiple shots rang out, shots police described as automatic gunfire. Bullets ended up hitting several area homes, and one went through a window of the police building.
It is not clear whether the precinct or officers were being purposely targeted.
Those officers saw someone who had been firing a weapon jump in a white Ford Taurus and speed away. Squads gave chase with lights and sirens and eventually the suspect vehicle stopped in an alley with a front seat passenger, later identified as Gaines, fleeing on foot.
Officers say Teasley was driving the vehicle, and was taken into custody. Thompson was found laying face-down between a fence and a house on Knox Avenue North, and a handgun with an extended magazine was nearby.
The complaint says after Gaines fled the getaway vehicle he refused verbal commands to stop. Officers caught up with him in a nearby alley where the defendant surrendered. In front of the vehicle Gaines was hiding behind, police found a Glock handgun with an extended magazine and slide attachment known as a "switch" that turns the gun into a fully automatic weapon.
No one was hurt in the incident. All three men remain in custody.
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