On the night of September 28, 2021, multiple gunshots were fired on the 2700 block of Bloomington Avenue in south Minneapolis. Officers who responded found three men with gunshot wounds; 54-year-old James Maurice Williams, a Black male, was found unresponsive and taken to a nearby hospital. He died of his injuries the next day, on September 29, 2021. A fourth man later arrived at a hospital with injuries believed to be from the same shooting.

The Minneapolis Police Department opened an investigation and asked the public for information. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew James, please come forward to help the investigation.