Marcus Lashaun Banks Jr was 22 when he was shot during a melee that began inside an establishment on the 200 block of West Broadway Avenue in Minneapolis in the early morning of June 14, 2020. The altercation spilled into the street and turned into a multi-shooter exchange; investigators recovered a large number of discharged cartridge casings and seven people were shot that night. Banks suffered a gunshot wound to the head, was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle, and died the next day. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Investigators described a chaotic gun battle and initially said suspects fled before police arrived. Court disclosures later connected the shooting to an apparent robbery inside the establishment and identified several people involved. Desean J. Solomon was charged in state court and convicted of second-degree murder in Banks’s death; Michael Burrell and Leontawan Holt were also implicated, and Burrell was identified as having started the gunfight that night.

Did anyone in the area witness the confrontation or the moments after it that could help fill in what happened?