11-year-old shot and killed near Minneapolis park

An 11-year-old boy is dead after a shooting near a park in Minneapolis on Monday afternoon.

Minneapolis police were called to Folwell Park on Dowling Avenue North around 2:08 p.m. on a report of gunfire in the park.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said witnesses reported seeing a car driving through the park and two other cars moving through the parking lot at the time of the shooting.

A short time later, a good Samaritan sitting on his porch near Morgan Avenue North and Dowling Avenue heard cries for help and found the 11-year-old boy with two other men, Chief O’Hara said…

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