By Brendan O’Brien
(Reuters) -Sheriff’s deputies in Minneapolis shot and killed a suspect wanted for murder on Thursday afternoon in a parking garage, an incident that drew a small protest nearby, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The shooting by Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies occurred in the city’s Uptown neighborhood on the fifth floor of a parking facility. Minneapolis police were not involved in the incident, the newspaper reported.
Word of the incident spread quickly, drawing a crowd of protesters who stood along police tape nearby. The city has been on edge since May 2020 when George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer, sparking global protests about racial inequality and police brutality.
(Reporting by Brendan O’Brien in Chicago; Editing by Leslie Adler and Karishma Singh)
