MINNEAPOLIS — A 10-year-old boy died in a Minneapolis hospital late Friday night after officers found him inside an apartment building with a gunshot wound.
On Monday, April 18, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office identified the boy as Amare Rashaun Mayberry-Campbell, of Andover.
According to a public information officer with the Minneapolis Police Department, officers received reports of a shooting inside an apartment building on the 300 block of Hennepin Avenue around 11:35 p.m. Friday.
When officers arrived, they found the wounded boy and began performing CPR and providing other medical care. According to the medical examiner, Mayberry-Campbell later died at Hennepin Healthcare from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Based on initial evidence and information, police said the boy and another child, who is a family member, were alone in the apartment when the shooting happened. Police did not say how old the other family member was or their gender.
While police didn't specify how the shooting happened, during a press conference Saturday afternoon, MPD Public Information Officer Garrett Parten made a plea to all gun owners to take the proper safety precautions in their homes.
Police added that homicide investigators have begun a death investigation and forensic scientists from the Minneapolis Forensic Unit processed the scene.
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