Randy John Burris Sr., 34, of Minneapolis was killed in a late-night road rage shooting on November 17, 2023. The confrontation occurred shortly before midnight on West River Parkway near the Franklin Avenue Bridge after Burris encountered a car driving the wrong way and blocking traffic. Burris, who was wearing a neck brace for a recent vertebrae injury, exited his vehicle to ask the driver to reverse. An argument with the driver, later identified as Dhaha Hayi Hassan, escalated and ended when Burris was found by officers with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen. First responders were unable to save him; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the cause of death multiple gunshot wounds.

Burris was known by his Native American name Giti-gaan, meaning Garden, and was a member of the Bear Clan; his obituary says he unexpectedly journeyed to the spirit world. Hassan, 25, of New Brighton, was arrested at the scene; officers recovered a Polymer 80 handgun without serial numbers in his waistband and charged him with second-degree murder and a felony firearm offense for possessing a gun without a serial number.

Does anyone have information about the events on West River Parkway that night or recall witnesses who might not yet have spoken with investigators?