Glenn Thufon Bolton, a 41-year-old Black man from Maple Grove, was found inside a running vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds shortly before midnight on April 26, 2023. Officers responded to the 2300 block of North 4th Street in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Minneapolis; emergency personnel attempted aid but Bolton was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds and classified it a homicide.

The Minneapolis Police Department opened an investigation but, in initial reports, made no arrests and released no information about suspects or a motive. The shooting has left family and neighbors seeking answers.

Anyone with information about Bolton or the events on North 4th Street that night is asked to come forward.