A man in his 20s suffered potentially life-threatening gunshot wounds after gunfire erupted outside a home being used as an Airbnb rental in the 3300 block of 38th Avenue South in Minneapolis. He didn't arrive at a hospital until just before 5 a.m. Sunday, hours after police say the shooting occurred, and no arrests have been made.
According to FOX 9, Minneapolis police responded to the block after receiving reports of gunfire and people driving away from the area. Officers arriving on scene found evidence of gunfire outside the short-term rental property, though authorities have not shared any details about what may have led to the shooting. The outlet reported the shooting was called in around 4:40 p.m. Sunday, though the article's body separately places the incident around 4:40 a.m. that same day — a discrepancy the station's own reporting does not resolve.
The injured man's arrival at the hospital hours after either reported time has not been explained by police, and investigators have announced no arrests as of Sunday. The station's report does not indicate whether officers have identified a suspect or a motive.
An Airbnb Once Again at the Center of Gunfire
The fact that the shooting scene sits outside a home being used as a short-term rental ties this case to a broader regulatory fight in Minneapolis. Under Title 12, Chapter 244 of the city's code of ordinances, non-owner-occupied short-term rentals must carry a standard rental dwelling license, pass city safety inspections, and stick to a cap of one short-term rental unit per owner beyond their homestead- rules the city put in place to curb the kind of neighbor complaints and party-house disruptions that often accompany unregulated rentals. It remains unknown whether the 38th Avenue property carried an active rental license at the time of the shooting.
Adding another wrinkle, single-family homes used as short-term rentals are classified as Group R-3 occupancies under the 2020 Minnesota State Fire Code, according to guidance from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, meaning they're generally exempt from the mandatory state fire inspections required of traditional hotels with six or more guest rooms. That regulatory gap has drawn scrutiny in other cities too — a similar dynamic played out this month when a Seattle Airbnb party turned violent, sending three people to the hospital on Capitol Hill.
A New Unit Built for Cases Like This One
This shooting falls under the jurisdiction of the Minneapolis Police Department's Firearm Assault Shoot Team, an eight-member unit within the department's major crimes division that launched in March 2026 specifically to investigate non-fatal shootings as what officials call failed homicides, as reported by CBS Minnesota. Before FAST existed, these cases were handled by homicide detectives and cleared at roughly 40% in 2025, according to MPR News. MPD leadership has said it hopes the dedicated unit can push that clearance rate toward 60% this year.
The 3300 block of 38th Avenue South falls within MPD's Precinct 3, which together with Precinct 4 accounts for 61% of all violent crime incidents and 75% of homicide victims citywide, per data cited from the City of Minneapolis. It's a pattern that has repeated itself elsewhere in South Minneapolis in recent days — Hoodline previously reported on a Stevens Avenue shooting that injured two men after officers responded to a suspicious vehicle call on August 5.
Part of a Larger, Improving Picture
Despite the concentration of violence in South Minneapolis, the city's overall numbers have been trending downward. A mid-year 2026 study by the Council on Criminal Justice found that homicide rates in Minneapolis fell 30% during the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2025, according to KARE 11. MPD figures recapped in January showed citywide shooting victims dropped 18% in 2025 versus 2024, part of a longer decline from 583 non-fatal gunshot victims in 2021 down to 255 last year, per FOX 9.
Police Chief Brian O'Hara has pointed to structural changes in major crime investigations as a factor behind the department's homicide clearance rate of 80% in 2025, the highest recorded by MPD in recent history, MPR News reported. Statewide, gun violence remains a persistent public health issue — Minnesota Department of Health data compiled by Protect Minnesota showed 564 people died from gun violence in 2024, with suicides accounting for 72% of those deaths and homicides making up just over a quarter.
For now, the man shot outside the 38th Avenue Airbnb remains the latest name added to a caseload the FAST unit was built to clear faster than before. Whether investigators can identify a suspect, and whether the rental property was operating within city licensing rules, remain open questions police have not yet answered.
