Police in Rochester say an officer shot a suspect wielding an ax early Saturday morning after a traffic stop on Hwy. 63. The male suspect was believed to have robbed a business while armed with the ax, around 11 p.m. on the 2000 block of Broadway Ave. S.

Gunfire interrupted the normally quiet downtown area of Janesville Tuesday afternoon, leaving one man seriously injured and a vehicle strewn with bullet holes outside the post office on Main Street.

A suspect reportedly wanted in connection to a previous murder and who was being pursued by officers in Brooklyn Center late Friday afternoon crashed into an unrelated vehicle and injured four of its occupants near 53rd Ave. N. & Humboldt Ave. N.

The man shot and killed by Minneapolis officers during a long-running standoff early Thursday morning at 904 21st. Ave. S. has been identified in an incident report as Andrew Tekle Sundberg, 20. Sundberg was suspected of firing a handgun multiple times while barricaded inside the third-floor apartment unit starting Wednesday night.

A man believed to have initially fired gunshots in an apartment in Minneapolis on Wednesday night was fatally shot by officers early Thursday after a standoff. As officers were responding to a 911 caller hearing gunfire inside the apartment building at 904 21st. Ave. S. shortly before 9:40 p.m., they heard at least four more.

Two men suspected in a gunfight outside an Apple Valley home earlier this week that left a 49-year-old woman dead have both now been charged. The victim was found in a vehicle, shot 10 times and was the mother of one of the suspects, identified as Billy Joe Pryor, Jr., 25.

A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after a minimum 30 years for fatally shooting a man in the head and leaving his body in a snowbank late January 31, 2021 in Inver Grove Heights.

Police have confirmed a woman is dead and two men are injured after a shooting in Apple Valley on the 900 block of Oriole Drive on Sunday night. Police were called there shortly before 6:30 p.m. after 911 callers reported “multiple people with weapons shooting at each other,” according to a brief social media post shared by Apple Valley police.

Four people were shot Wednesday—including a 15-year-old boy—after a confrontation in an alley led to gunfire, Saint Cloud police have confirmed. The gunshots started shortly before 6 p.m. near 6th Ave. S. & 11th St. S., and were witnessed by an EMS crew in the area.

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 6-year-old girl after her mother died of suspected suicide inside her apartment Saturday morning. Police say Lisa Wade, 39, was found dead inside an apartment on the 600 block of Maple Brook Ct. shortly before noon on July 2.

Officers from multiple agencies were searching the area of Vadnais Lake on Friday evening for a reportedly suicidal woman and her three children. According to initial law enforcement dispatch audio reviewed by MN CRIME, the woman’s husband reportedly died by suicide today and the woman then threatened to kill herself and her children.

Saint Paul police have started a homicide investigation after a man was found shot and killed on a sidewalk early Friday morning. A 911 caller reported around 3:10 a.m. that a person was lying on the sidewalk in front of a building on the 600 block of Dale St. N.