MINNEAPOLIS — Davis Moturi said he was doing yard work outside his south Minneapolis home Wednesday afternoon when his neighbor shot him.
Moturi is now at Hennepin Healthcare with a bullet stuck near his spine. He does not know when he’ll get out of the hospital and doesn’t know if, or how, the bullet will be removed.
Minneapolis police say there is “limited information available” about the shooting and that police still investigating what led up to it. WCCO is not naming the individual, since no formal charges have been filed.
It all stems from a problem neighbor, Moturi said. Those problems began when he moved into his Lyndale home just over a year ago.
“Saying like, ‘Hey, if you touch that tree, things are going to happen to you,'” said Moturi.
Not long after moving in, Moturi said the man started making threats and racist comments. The neighbor was caught on tape, calling Moturi “ghetto.”
Things escalated from there. Moturi said his neighbor dumped human waste into his mail slot, would sound an airhorn and scream late into the night.