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On the morning of June 6, 2021, a dispute over a game of dice on a downtown Rochester, Minnesota sidewalk near a parking ramp on 1st Avenue Southwest ended with 28-year-old Todd Lorne Banks Jr. shot and killed. An autopsy found Banks died from multiple gunshot wounds. Another 28-year-old man was critically injured in the same altercation.

Surveillance footage showed a physical fight among people playing dice, and captured Derrick T. Days, then 30, moving a man aside and shooting Banks several times. A Rochester police officer nearby saw Nautica D. Cox, then 25, firing a handgun toward the crowd; the officer pursued Cox into an alley and took him into custody, and a handgun was recovered nearby. Days was arrested elsewhere that morning.

Both men were charged for their roles in Banks’s death and the other man’s injury. Does anyone have information about what led to the dice game turning violent or other eyewitness details from that block that morning?