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Several shootings in the Twin Cities to start the new year left one man dead and injured two children. FOX 9's Bill Keller has the details.Subscribe to FOX 9

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Several shootings in the Twin Cities to start the new year left one man dead and injured two children. FOX 9's Bill Keller has the details. Posted January 2, 2024 8:02am CST

https://www.startribune.com/modest-progress-on-violent-crime/600334736/
By the numbers, 2024 kicked off with relatively encouraging news on violent crime trend lines in the Twin Cities. Homicides fell in both Minneapolis and St. Paul in 2023 vs. the year before

https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-girl-injured-by-stray-bullet-on-new-years-morning
2 children hurt in shootings in the Twin Cities over the New Years. By FOX 9 Staff. Published January 1, 2024 2:20pm CST. Hawthorne. FOX 9. MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - As the calendar turned to 2024

https://www.willmarradio.com/news/violent-start-to-the-new-year-in-the-twin-cities/article_e8acc4aa-a970-11ee-848f-ff404026b74b.html
Violent start to the new year in The Twin Cities. Learfield Wire Service. Jan 2, 2024 Updated Jan 2, 2024. (St. Paul, MN) -- St. Paul police are investigating its first homicide of 2024. Officers reported to Van Buren Avenue around 1:30 a.m. of shots fired. Police say one man was taken to the hospital by another person, but he died from his wounds.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/violent-crime-is-dropping-across-twin-cities-in-2023
Jul 27, 2023. Violent crime in the Twin Cities has dropped since last year, according to data provided by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The data, presented by Minnesota BCA Superintendent Drew Evans at a conference in Mounds View this week, shows violent crime in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area has decreased by 11% in

https://www.startribune.com/violent-crime-declined-in-minneapolis-last-year-but-rates-still-well-above-norm/600241620/
At the time, Minneapolis already was seeing crime decline. By the end of August, homicides had fallen 3%, gunfire reports were down 12% and 50 fewer people had been shot. On the flip side

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2024/01/02/violent-crime-homicide-declines-minneapolis-saint-paul-2023
Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. The number of homicides in Minneapolis and St. Paul fell in 2023 compared to 2022. By the numbers: Minneapolis finished the year with 72 homicides, according to city statistics. That's down from 80 in 2022 and 97 in 2021. In St. Paul, homicides fell from 40 in 2022 to 32 last year, according to the Pioneer Press.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/police-chase-in-twin-cities-ends-with-2-teens-dead-3-injured-and-suv-split-in-half
Two teenagers were killed after police said they crashed a stolen vehicle in Minneapolis.Three others were seriously hurt. It all started when a Mercedes SUV was reported stolen in an armed carjacking in the area of 12th Street and Fremont Avenue in Minneapolis around 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Robbinsdale Police Department news release and media reports.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/09/11/violent-crime-falls-but-remains-elevated-over-pre-pandemic-levels/
Statewide through July there have been 97 homicides recorded in 2023, compared to 114 for the same period in 2022. While the ebb in violence from the 2021 high water mark is welcome, violent crime overall still remains elevated well above pre-pandemic levels. In per-capita terms, the murder rate remains slightly below the all-time high set in

https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/violent-crime-down-across-the-board-in-the-twin-cities/
Violent crime in the seven-county Twin Cities metro area is down 11% in the first half of 2023, according to data presented this week by Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension superintendent Drew Evans. Aggravated assault is down 6% in the region, rape is down 17%, and robbery and homicide are both down by more than 20% through the end of June.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/gun-violence-in-twin-cities-is-part-of-nationwide-trend/89-0fe3974f-b914-4683-8dc1-b54f95181558
Although the FBI won't release full data until September, at least one studysuggests that the nationwide murder rate in 2020 increased by nearly 30% compared to the previous year. That violence

https://www.twincities.com/2024/02/23/minnesota-traffic-fatalities-have-spiked-so-far-in-2024/
2024. February. 23. Minnesota has seen a spike in traffic fatalities to start 2024. According to the Office of Traffic Safety, a division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, as of

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/new-plan-to-federally-fight-violent-crime-in-mn/89-fa4e090a-ff1a-4a81-9309-2cc9a5cb74bd
U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, along with ATF, FBI and state officials announced a new federal strategy to combat violent crime across the Twin Cities metro.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/07/27/violent-crime-surges-across-minnesota-with-record-murders
Violent crime surged nearly 17 percent across Minnesota last year, including a record number of murders, according to data released Tuesday by the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/community-pledges-to-take-back-streets-after-violent-start-to-2022-in-twin-cities/89-2f9b0b5a-c7ed-4b0d-b05c-74a654cf6f60
Community groups are searching for solutions and a path forward, both in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

https://patch.com/minnesota/minneapolis/violent-crimes-dropped-twin-cities-metro-police-data-shows
TWIN CITIES, MN — Violent crime in the Twin Cities metro area was down during the first half of 2023, according to state data released Wednesday. Crime dropped 11 percent from where it was

https://www.twincities.com/2024/06/25/st-paul-homicide-man-shots-fired-crash/
A homicide investigation is underway after police responded to a crash in St. Paul and found a person in the vehicle had been fatally shot. Multiple people called 911 after 10:30 p.m. Monday, with

https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2023/01/03/homicides-muder-rates-minneapolis-st-paul
Homicides fell in Minneapolis, rose in St. Paul in 2022. Murders in Minneapolis fell by about 17.5% in 2022, but reached a new record in St. Paul. Details: Minneapolis finished the year with about 80 homicides (city data said 79, other media reports said 80 or 81). That's down from 97 last year. St. Paul reported its 40th homicide of the year

https://www.twincities.com/2022/05/03/feds-announce-strategy-to-combat-carjackings-other-violent-crime-in-the-twin-cities/
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2022 at 8:06 p.m. | UPDATED: May 3, 2022 at 10:18 p.m. Minnesota's new U.S. attorney said Tuesday his office will refocus the effort to combat violent crime in the Twin Cities

https://www.yahoo.com/news/twin-cities-crime-rises-over-021954414.html
KMSP. May 27, 2024. The Twin Cities have had a violent start to the summer season, with 10 people hurt in four separate shootings over the weekend. View comments.

https://www.fox9.com/news/sloppy-morning-commute-monday-after-sunday-snowstorm
Hundreds of crashes, 2 fatal, on Minnesota roads amid spring snowstorm. until THU 1:00 AM CDT, Buffalo County. until FRI 7:00 AM CDT, Saint Louis County. until SUN 10:00 PM CDT, Redwood County

https://alphanews.org/violent-incidents-involving-schools-teens-continue-to-plague-the-metro/
Twin Cities metro area schools and communities have seen a rash of violent incidents involving teens in the last few months, with the latest on Wednesday at Armstrong High School in Plymouth. A video posted on social media Wednesday showed an apparent brawl in a crowded hallway at the school with several people trying to intervene.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/17/fathers-day-weekend-gun-violence/74126203007/
Though there have been fewer shootings in 2024, the country typically sees an uptick in gun violence as summer begins. ... a husband and wife and a 78-year-old man. ... 6 hurt, 1 dead in weekend

https://www.fox9.com/news/homicides-in-twin-cities-mark-violent-start-to-new-year
(FOX 9) - Three homicides in the Twin Cities marked an end to a violent 2019 and an inauspicious start to the New Year. 2019 saw St. Paul double its murders from the previous year with 30 deaths