Richard Reeve Created: May 21, 2021 11:22 PM We have seen an obviously alarming amount of gunfire, violence in our communities,” Mayor Melvin Carter said. “We ve endured just too much. I think people are kind of already on edge and just afraid,” a woman attending the meeting added. “And, of course, what happened in Minneapolis with the kids has put people on edge.”
During the past few weeks, police say they’ve seen an uptick in violence in the metro, including the shootings of three children, one of them deadly.
On Thursday, around 8:30 p.m., officers called to the Frogtown Commmunity Center found a 14-year-old boy shot in the leg and foot. A second boy, 16 years old, turned up at the hospital, wounded in the leg. The injuries are considered non-life-threatening.