A boy in his late teens and a man in his 30s were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after gunfire erupted near Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis around 7:45 p.m. Sunday night. Police had not made any arrests as investigators worked to piece together what led up to the shooting.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, both victims were taken to a nearby hospital following the shooting, as reported by KSTP. The case has been handed to the department's Firearm Assault Shoot Team, known as FAST, which is investigating alongside MPD.
FAST is a relatively new addition to the city's crime-fighting toolkit. The unit launched in March specifically to investigate non-fatal shootings, and it draws investigators from multiple agencies, including Bloomington police, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Metro Transit, per a report from CBS News Minnesota.
A Unit Built to Close More Cases
The station's report notes that a FAST lieutenant said the unit hopes to clear 60% of its cases this year, a notable jump from the more than 40% of non-fatal shooting cases the department closed last year. The stakes are significant: the same report found that 138 people have been shot in 123 separate shooting incidents across Minneapolis this year.
Uptown in particular has seen a string of gunfire incidents. The same CBS News Minnesota account referenced nine people shot outside the Reign nightclub in the neighborhood just over a week before that report published, and a separate article from the outlet described a man suffering life-threatening injuries in a Sunday-morning shooting near West Lake Street and Grand Avenue South, which police believe began as an altercation that escalated into gunfire.
Other Recent Minneapolis Shootings
Uptown is not the only part of the city that has seen repeated violence. A Star Tribune report described four people shot, one fatally, near East Franklin and Elliot avenues in south Minneapolis, with police saying multiple shooters were involved based on dozens of bullet casings recovered near a corner store. The same report described another Uptown shooting near the 1300 block of Lake Street that left an 18-year-old man hospitalized with gunshot injuries.
What the Citywide Numbers Show
Citywide crime data from the first half of 2026 paints a mixed picture. Minneapolis police reported 25 homicides between January 1 and June 30, down slightly from 26 during the same period in 2025, the Star Tribune's sister outlet KSTP reported. Robberies also fell, from 502 to 404 over the same stretch, according to the same report.
Other categories moved in the opposite direction. Aggravated assaults rose from 1,346 to 1,518, and rape reports climbed from 214 to 252, the outlet's reporting shows. The figures come from a Minneapolis violent crime survey released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association on August 1, which the report stressed was preliminary data still awaiting federal verification rather than a final FBI report.
No suspect description or motive had been released as of Sunday night's shooting, and the Firearm Assault Shoot Team's investigation into what led up to the gunfire near Hennepin and Lake remained ongoing.
