On July 18, 2021, 15-year-old Anthony Joseph Rouse of Blaine, Minnesota, was shot while in a van in Fridley during what the occupants believed would be a marijuana purchase. A 17-year-old, Isaiah Harold-Stephaun Holmes, approached the vehicle with a handgun, announced a robbery and told the occupants not to flee. The driver accelerated to get away and Holmes fired multiple shots into the van, striking Rouse in the neck and shoulder.

Rouse was taken to a nearby hospital and later transferred to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died of complications from his gunshot wounds on July 20, 2021. The death was ruled a homicide. Investigators identified Holmes; he initially denied being at the scene but witness statements and surveillance footage placed him firing into the van. Holmes was arrested and charged as a juvenile with two counts of second-degree murder, assault and attempted first-degree aggravated robbery, and prosecutors sought to certify him to stand trial as an adult.

Does anyone have information about Anthony’s last known movements that evening or the location on Main Street where the meeting was arranged?