In the early morning hours of August 15, 2021, a dispute at the White Castle on West Lake Street in Minneapolis escalated into deadly gunfire. Tuquan L. Smith, 32, a Black man from Woodbury, Minnesota, was sitting in his vehicle shortly before 2 a.m. when a confrontation with occupants of a Jeep in the drive-thru led to an individual in the Jeep firing multiple shots. Smith was struck in the chest; his vehicle then rolled forward, jumped the curb and stopped across the street at Blaisdell Avenue and West Lake Street. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police traced the suspect vehicle to a residence on the 3200 block of South 3rd Avenue later that day and arrested a 28-year-old Minneapolis woman on suspicion of aiding and abetting murder. Surveillance footage from the restaurant area was used in the investigation. If anyone has information about Smith, the incident at the White Castle that night, or the people involved, please share what is known.