On the evening of December 16, 2024, 17-year-old Myron Dale James Neadeau, an Anishinaabe teen, was shot outside his home in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis on the 1100 block of East 25th Street. Witnesses say he was with a group when shots rang out around 7:15 p.m.; struck by multiple bullets, he ran back into the house and collapsed. Responding officers provided CPR and applied a chest seal but Myron was pronounced dead inside the residence.

Family and community members remembered Myron as a devoted brother, an avid gamer, a Woodland dancer who’d been on drum since childhood, and someone who made rap music with friends. He was described as determined to graduate high school the following year and as having a big heart and contagious sense of humor. The Minneapolis American Indian Center highlighted the disproportionate violence affecting Native communities and mourned his loss.

Homicide investigators are working the case and no arrests have been announced. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Minneapolis Police Department. Did anyone in the Phillips area see or hear anything that night?