Ajoko Chris Gaye, 28, died after being shot on the evening of July 19, 2026, outside a business in the 1800 block of Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. He was one of five people wounded in that mass shooting; he was taken to a local hospital with critical injuries and later succumbed to those wounds.

The Nicollet Avenue shooting came the same day as a separate mass shooting in the Uptown neighborhood that injured nine people. Minneapolis Police said they were investigating possible links between the two incidents and whether either was gang-related, and announced extra resources would be deployed around East 19th Street and Nicollet Avenue. By late July 2026 no arrests in the Nicollet Avenue case had been publicly announced. Police also circulated a description of a suspect in a non-fatal shooting nearby the next day, but any connection to Gaye’s death was unclear.

The investigation remains open and the family is left without closure. If anyone saw the shooting on Nicollet Avenue or has information about people present that evening, please share what is known with investigators.