
$30 Dispute Led to Deadly Shooting in Minneapolis Apartment
According to the criminal complaint, officers were called to the 2600 block of West Broadway Avenue on Nov. 5 and found a woman dead inside an apartment.
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According to the criminal complaint, officers were called to the 2600 block of West Broadway Avenue on Nov. 5 and found a woman dead inside an apartment.

Prosecutors charged Dantrell Dajuan Clark with one count of second-degree murder with intent and three counts of attempted second-degree murder in connection with the shooting.

Initial information indicates the woman was inside an apartment with a male acquaintance when he fired shots that struck her. Investigators recovered a firearm and a knife from the living room floor.

35-year-old Preston Casey Palmer admitted to six felony counts involving solicitation of a child through electronic communication and distribution of sexual material to a minor.

Auto theft detectives ultimately recovered six altered vehicles, four spare odometers and more than $53,000 in cash from the property.

Initial reports to 911 indicated the shooting may have been self-inflicted, but police later learned the victim may have been shot by another teenager who was also at the house.

Responding officers found the man critically injured and he was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries. His name has not yet been released, pending family notification.

Police said the incident began around 2:38 a.m. when an officer reported hearing two bursts of fully automatic gunfire near 13th Avenue Southeast and 5th Street Southeast.

Ortley was meeting with a professional visitor at the jail. As the visitor left, he allegedly shoved past and entered a public elevator area, taking a fire extinguisher from the wall.

According to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, police were called shortly before 7 a.m. to a report of a man down outside a building near East 26th Street and 32nd Avenue South.

The victim was behind an older, white sedan with tinted windows that was weaving between lanes and speeding up and slowing down.

Abdihakim Egal is charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for the Oct. 23 attack in south Minneapolis.