Community leaders filled the main atrium of the Hennepin County Government Center Thursday with a simple message: the violence needs to stop.
Since the start of June, they point to the murder of a young mother at Boom Island Park, the killing of an 11-year-old boy in broad daylight, and the additional killings of two young women in the last two weeks.
So far, arrests have only been made in one of the cases. A criminal complaint says a man is facing second-degree murder charges in connection with the Boom Island Park shooting…