Overview
- Police responded within minutes to 911 calls about shots fired at Loring Towers (15 East Grant St.) and entered the building on Wednesday after finding victims in the lobby.
- Officers followed gunfire to an upper floor where a haze reduced visibility and engaged the shooter; the suspect was found dead at the scene and investigators have not yet released how he died.
- Two residents were killed and seven people were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center; three Minneapolis officers were injured during the response, two by gunfire, and all were reported in stable condition.
- The BCA is leading the active investigation with federal help from the FBI and ATF while authorities gather evidence and interview witnesses about the sequence of events.
- Local reporting and court records identify the suspected shooter as Carlton Neal Johnson II, note an eviction case with a trial set for Sept. 11, and say the episode began during a reported child custody exchange that emergency investigators are examining.