Quentheus Julian Watkins, a 23-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Minneapolis on May 23, 2021. The shooting occurred near 4th Street North and 24th Avenue North, where he sustained multiple gunshot wounds. An attempt to get him to hospital ended when the vehicle carrying him crashed at 6th Street South and 4th Avenue South; officers arriving about 2:40 a.m. found three people involved and discovered Watkins deceased inside the car. Another passenger was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with noncritical injuries.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled Watkins’s death a homicide due to multiple gunshot wounds. The Minneapolis Police Department was investigating, and as of late May 2021 no arrests or publicly identified suspects had been announced. If anyone was in the area that night or has information about the shooting or the crash, please come forward to the investigators handling the case.