Jamal Brandan Smith, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot just before 2 a.m. near East Lake Street and 15th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Officers went to a ShotSpotter alert that was later updated to a reported shooting. First responders found Smith gravely wounded and he was taken to Hennepin Healthcare, where he was pronounced dead.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the right thigh and listed the place of injury as East Lake Street and 15th Avenue South; the location of death was Hennepin Healthcare’s emergency department at 701 Park Avenue. Another man believed to have been injured in the same incident arrived at the hospital separately with non-life-threatening wounds. Detectives were still piecing together the sequence of events and no arrests had been announced; anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.

Did anyone in the area that night see or hear anything that could help?