William Colin Wallace

On or about March 19, 2026 at approximately 10:00 P.M., officers responded to an apartment building on Girard Avenue North in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota for a report of the sound of shots fired. The reporting party stated they live in apartment XX4, and someone shot through their apartment wall. The reporting party stated that, right after they heard the shots fired, they heard two people coming out of the apartment next door, apartment XX3. The reporting party stated one black male wearing a black hoodie and one black female wearing an orange hoodie, both approximately 25 years old, walked out of apartment XX3, and the reporting party saw the black male pick up a casing from the hallway.

Officers arrived on scene and went to the hallway with apartments XX3 and XX4. Officers saw bullet damage in the hallway, including a bullet hole in the wall next to the doorway of apartment XX3 and in the wall next to apartment XX4. Officers recovered a slug from the hallway. Officers attempted to contact the suspects from apartment XX3, but no one answered the door. While officers were knocking on the door, a male, later identified as WILLIAM COLIN WALLACE (“Defendant” herein), and a female walked into the hallway from the south stairwell.

Defendant and the female told officers they were residents of apartment XX3. Officers confirmed Defendant’s identity and confirmed that he had a valid permit to carry a pistol. Defendant admitted to discharging his firearm within his apartment by accident. Defendant told officers that he stored his firearm in his bedroom, inside the nightstand drawer to the right of his bed. Defendant agreed to allow officers to enter the apartment and seize the firearm. Inside apartment XX3 in a nightstand drawer, officers recovered a black Springfield Echelon 9 mm handgun.

Officers also recovered a discharged cartridge casing inside the apartment’s living room, in front of the couch. Defendant told officers that he accidentally discharged the firearm while he was removing the magazine. Defendant showed officers where a bullet struck his fridge. Defendant admitted to leaving the scene without calling 911 to report the incident because he figured no one was injured.