On the evening of February 21, 2023, 28-year-old Alexis Rae Rodriguez was fatally shot on the 2600 block of West Broadway Avenue in north Minneapolis. Rodriguez, a Hispanic woman known to family and friends as Dud, was a passenger in a vehicle when another car pulled alongside and its driver opened fire, striking Rodriguez and the man she was with. The male driver, though wounded, managed to drive them to North Memorial Health Hospital in a vehicle described as riddled with bullet holes. Medical staff attempted to save her, but Rodriguez died of multiple gunshot wounds at about 8:30 p.m.; the man with her survived significant injuries.

Investigators later identified two men in connection with the attack: 34-year-old Marquis Deonte Gardner, who was accused of firing the shots, and 39-year-old Anthony Leandre Winston, described as an accomplice. The shooting left Rodriguez’s family and the community grieving. If anyone knew Alexis, the circumstances of that night, or has information about the people involved, please come forward.