Minneapolis city leaders say there’s been a “promising decline” in gun violence during the first three months of 2025.
According to police data, there were 49 shootings in the city from Jan. 1 to March 31. That’s down from 70 shootings during the same time period last year and a peak of 114 shootings in the first three months of 2022.
The last time Minneapolis experienced so few shootings in the first three months of the year was in 2020 when 43 people were injured or killed by gunfire…