Daishawn Darnell Sykes, 26, Black/African American male, was shot on the evening of August 26, 2025, in south Minneapolis and died that night at Hennepin Healthcare at 8:48 p.m. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide, listing the cause as a gunshot wound of the abdomen and the injury location as 2731 3rd Avenue South.

Minneapolis police were dispatched to the 2700 block of 3rd Avenue South around 8 p.m. for reports of gunfire and found a man in his 20s suffering life-threatening wounds; officers performed CPR before he was taken to the hospital. About 17 minutes after the initial call, another man in his 20s arrived at Abbott Northwestern Hospital with apparent non-life-threatening gunshot wounds that investigators believe resulted from the same shooting. A photographer at the scene observed crime scene tape, numerous squad cars, and roughly twenty evidence markers on the pavement.

As of early September investigators had not announced any arrests in Sykes’s death and the case remained active while detectives worked to determine what led to the gunfire. If anyone has information about the shooting on the 2700 block of 3rd Avenue South on August 26, 2025, please come forward.