Police officer, suspect among 3 dead in Minneapolis shooting : NPR

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis police officer was killed Thursday when he responded to a taking pictures name and was offering medical consideration to a person who shot him in what authorities are calling an ambush, authorities stated.

The suspected gunman and one other particular person had been additionally killed within the taking pictures, which left a 3rd particular person gravely injured in a south Minneapolis neighborhood, Minneapolis Assistant Police Chief Katie Blackwell stated.

A second officer and a firefighter had been additionally injured, authorities stated.

The fallen officer was recognized as Jamal Mitchell, a father who was engaged to be married. Cops stood in a line outdoors Hennepin County Medical Heart, the place Mitchell was pronounced lifeless.

Members of legislation enforcement collect outdoors Hennepin County Medical Heart in Minneapolis on Thursday.

Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune through AP

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Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune through AP

“Town of Minneapolis misplaced a hero in police officer Jamal Mitchell,” Mayor Jacob Frey stated. “This officer gave the final word sacrifice to guard and save the lives of others. His life, his service and his identify will endlessly be remembered within the metropolis of Minneapolis.”

Authorities stated Mitchell was honored for heroic actions final yr, on his third day on the job. The Minneapolis Police Division posted on Fb final yr that Mitchell and one other officer rescued an aged couple from a home fireplace. The submit stated the officers ran inside and obtained the couple out earlier than the house was absolutely engulfed in flames and destroyed.

“Their fast actions … had been really heroic, as they prevented this hearth from being much more tragic,” Chief Brian O’Hara stated within the submit.

The taking pictures comes three months after two officers and a firefighter-paramedic within the Minneapolis suburb of Burnsville had been killed whereas responding to a home violence name. In that case, a person started taking pictures from a house whereas seven youngsters had been inside. A 3rd officer was wounded earlier than the person died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.