MINNEAPOLIS — Police say a man is dead after he was shot Friday night in Minneapolis.
A statement from a Minneapolis police spokesperson released early Saturday morning says officers, as well as Hennepin County Sheriff's deputies, responded to reports of a shooting around 9 p.m. near South Sixth Street and Chicago Avenue.
When authorities arrived, they found a man in his 20s sitting inside a running vehicle, suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Although attempts were made to save him, police say the man died at the scene.
On Sunday, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified the man as 26-year-old Jeremy Demond Ellis of Plymouth. His cause of the death was "multiple gunshot wounds," according to the press release.
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