
Teen Takes Plea Deal in Minneapolis Mass Shooting That Injured 9
Demario Lee Dempsey, now 18, admitted in court to three counts of attempted second-degree murder for his role in the Aug. 20, 2023, shooting near East Franklin Ave. & Chicago Ave.
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Demario Lee Dempsey, now 18, admitted in court to three counts of attempted second-degree murder for his role in the Aug. 20, 2023, shooting near East Franklin Ave. & Chicago Ave.

A 17-year-old and a 19-year-old have now been charged in the February 6 shooting death of a man in Minneapolis.

The shooting happened around 8:20 p.m. on Thursday, May 15, when an ambulance crew near Abbott Northwestern Hospital was flagged down by an occupant inside a vehicle.

Preston Casey Palmer, 34, was arrested at a park on the 2700 block of 39th Avenue South in Minneapolis, next to the school where he teaches, court documents say.

Officers from the 3rd Precinct were dispatched around 1:50 a.m. after a 911 caller reported finding a person down in the alley near 17th Avenue South and East Lake Street. The caller also reported hearing a gunshot about 20 minutes earlier.

Officers from the 5th Precinct responded just after 2:20 a.m. to multiple reports of gunfire in the 2700 block of Pillsbury Avenue South.

Three separate house fires in Minneapolis within a 24-hour span displaced multiple residents, left all three homes uninhabitable, and sent one person to the hospital for possible smoke inhalation.

The impact forced a sedan off the road and into a tree, while an SUV crashed into the front porch of a nearby house. Two juvenile boys were hurt in the crash, including one with possibly life-threatening injuries.

Mickiah Latrell Jackson, 39, is accused of killing a man during what investigators say started as a robbery. He was arrested six days later and is now being held on $1 million bail.

Fire crews were dispatched just after 12:30 a.m. to 901 Cedar Avenue South, where they arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the back of the building.

A woman accused of striking four pedestrians with her car in two separate Uptown hit-and-run incidents last week is now charged with second-degree murder following the death of one of the victims.

Investigators say the shooting followed a physical altercation among a group of teenage boys—estimated at up to a dozen. During the confrontation, one of the teens pulled a gun and fired, striking the 14-year-old victim.