Created: January 08, 2021 10:56 AM
A 21-year-old woman has been taken into custody in connection to a violent assault that happened in Minneapolis on Saturday.
According to Director of Police Information John Elder, on Saturday at about 12:14 p.m., the Minneapolis Police Department responded to a report of a Somali woman in her mid-70s shot and beaten on the 1700 block of East 22nd Street.
Officers arrived and located an elderly woman who had been shot and pistol whipped so severely that a metal piece of the gun broke off and was found at the scene. The lone suspect fled the scene with the victim s purse containing her rent money.
Charges: Woman stalked, shot, pistol-whipped elderly victim in Minneapolis robbery Da Seanna Williams stands charged with multiple felonies. January 9, 2021 5:50pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A Brooklyn Park woman stalked a 76-year-old woman into her Minneapolis apartment building last week, where she shot and pistol-whipped the victim, robbing her of $900 in rent money she d just withdrawn from the bank, charges say.
Da Seanna D. Williams, 21, was charged in Hennepin County District Court on Thursday with aggravated robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon, both felonies, in connection with the violent attack that left the Somali-American elder with a fractured skull and brain bleed. Williams remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.