On the afternoon of July 16, 2022, a passerby found 28-year-old Marcus Ricardo Brown lying on the ground in front of a vehicle near North 21st Avenue and Bryant Avenue North in the Hawthorne neighborhood of Minneapolis and called 911. Brown, a Black man from Saint Cloud, was discovered with life-threatening gunshot wounds. Officers gave first aid until EMS arrived; he was taken by ambulance to North Memorial Medical Center and remained in critical condition for four days.

Marcus Ricardo Brown died on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the neck. The initial 911 call offered no information about what led to the shooting, and the circumstances stayed unclear. Police opened an investigation as the city’s 48th homicide of the year; authorities did not publicly identify any suspects or link the one later arrest to the killing.

Anyone with information about what happened near North 21st Avenue and Bryant Avenue North on July 16, 2022, is asked to contact investigators.