Overview
- David Eugene Wright is charged in Hennepin County with second-degree murder and illegal gun possession in the September shooting of Mariah Samuels.
- MPD will retrain all officers by year’s end and now requires officers to ask victims if they feel safe and to take affirmative action based on the response.
- O’Hara says the domestic-violence unit has five investigators, with one more just added, down from about a dozen in 2019, forcing triage that left earlier reports without an immediate investigator.
- The department has launched a formal review of its handling of Samuels’ case, including whether responding officers followed protocol, and is expanding a risk assessment tool and planning a multidisciplinary response team.
- Families and advocates rallied outside the Hennepin County Government Center calling for accountability and more resources as the Allison Lussier case remains unsolved and Mayor Jacob Frey points to the need to hire more staff.