It's the news that we hate starting your day with.
As we come on air, police and investigators
are on scene right now near 22nd and Blais
Avenue in South Minneapolis where a police officer
gave his life trying to protect others.
We're gonna get to that breaking news in just one minute.
We have team coverage for you,
but first we're tracking rain hitting the metro right now.
So let's get right over to John
with what you need to know before you head out the door.
Yeah, we are tracking this rain band right now, especially, uh,
from Saint Cloud down to the twin cities just starting to pick up steam.
Now, this is your lightest band of the day
and then we'll actually see heavier thunderstorm type uh,
rain come in this afternoon
this evening. So right now you got some pockets.
Like I said, Redwood falls through Hutchinson.
You could see the rain, uh,
pretty spotty around the metro but starting to come in Northfield,
a little rain on 35 going south
heading into the metro looks like it's coming into
494 into Plymouth up towards Elk River and Rogers
been a little bit more of a wet start in Rogers so far.
But that will change as it is moving on more of the east side of the metro.
Heading North Moa,
there's some rain over towards Lake Milax,
but you can see Brainerd is gonna be on the edge of this throughout the entire day.
So this is just the beginning.
We got to track this uh full thing out,
talk about when it's gonna clear this weekend as well in your forecast CC.
Hey, pretty serious situation. Line of Lakes.
A crash, a car looks like it's flipped onto its roof.
I 35 W northbound between County road 23
Lake Drive in the 35 E area. Maybe you're headed up, uh, to Columbus area.
You see things kind of down to one lane, you may run into this,
so just take it slow if you're in that area.
Hopefully everyone is ok in that situation.
Also tracking a stalled vehicle situation.
Uh, in Minneapolis, it is blocking a lane. It's right between East 35th street here.
There's my camera, East 35th street and East 36th Street on, uh, 35 WC.
A tow truck just getting to the scene minutes ago. So if you're headed down into Rich,
maybe Bloomington State to your right.
I believe there's a crew there with the sign telling you to do that.
But a couple of situations I'm
tracking otherwise things looking pretty great across
the metro but I'll let you know when these two situations clear.
Jason
CC. Thank you very much.
We need to catch you up on new details coming in in
the last few hours on the deadly ambush style shooting in Minneapolis.
We know an officer is among three people dead.
Several others were injured including a second officer and a firefighter.
This happened in the Whittier neighborhood near 22nd and Blaisdell Avenue South
officers were called in around 530 last night responding
to two people shot inside of an apartment.
I bring you team coverage.
Audrey has been digging into what we know about the fallen officer. But first,
let's get to Michelle with new information from
police overnight about how all of this happened.
Michelle
Jason will just a few minutes ago.
The last officers here at this apartment building here behind me,
they have left after being finished presumably
setting or clearing or securing at the scene right here.
And all this comes as we get brand new
reaction from the Minneapolis police chief about how a horrific
of events happened here all spanning these two
blocks involving the deaths of three people,
four others shot
at the BC A tells us this information and PD officer Jamal
Mitchell was trying to help the victims near
the scene of a shooting at this apartment.
He died trying to help the man who shot him.
As we wait for more details on that state.
Investigators did also reveal at least one other officer
yesterday fired back and the suspected shooter died.
A civilian also died.
More bullets hitting a second police officer, a firefighter,
a bystander and another person.
This is the worst call
a police chief can get.
Is that one of your own has given their life
in the line of duty.
It's beyond comprehension
and what you just heard there from Chief
o'hara was the latest we heard from officials overnight
but really late last night to lots of state leaders, they were using the word ambush,
including the BC A coming up in the next 30 minutes.
I detail what that word means.
How much of this timeline of events officials are telling at this moment for now.
I send it back to you.
All right, Michelle, thank you very much.
And we also spoke with several neighbors at the scene
who described the terrifying moments as the shooting unfolded,
the gunshots that were just a quick session like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Honestly, the whole time,
I was just hoping like a stray bullet doesn't like fly in through our window
and in a show of unity,
mayor fry governor walls and other state and local leaders spoke late last night.
This is one of those incidents should be unthinkable,
but it's very thinkable because it's now happened
four times in the last couple of months.
We've got to do everything possible to make sure that these tragic events,
this epidemic of gun violence.
This kind of stuff never happens again.
An emotional scene in the last 10 hours as Jamal Mitchell's
body was taken to the medical examiner's office in Minnetonka.
The miles long procession
included hundreds of officers honoring the
ultimate sacrifice that Officer Mitchell made.
In the last few hours. We've learned more about who Jamal Mitchell is
and his legacy now living on after his death,
Audrey is live in the medical examiner's office where
Officer Mitchell's body was taken just hours ago.
Audrey
Jason oftentimes in these situations,
we hear the phrase he ran towards the danger rather than away from it.
And we're learning that Officer Jamal
Mitchell has pretty much been doing that since his first few days on the job.
We're learning he's only been in Minneapolis police
officer for around a year and a half.
We learned that last February Officer Mitchell ran in
to a burning building with no fire training on his
third day on the job to rescue an elderly couple
assistant police chief Katie Black while talking about this heroic
act at a press conference just a few hours ago.
She said that that level of courage for which she was awarded and
commended is rare to find in an officer so early in their career
to our fallen officer Jamal
Mitchell. He was a hero.
I've never met an officer that received an award on
the third day on the job during his FTO.
He's courageous in every action that he did.
He was a wonderful human being.
Now,
now Officer Mitchell leaves behind a fiance and a child.
As you drive by a state office buildings this morning,
you may notice that flags have been lowered to half staff.
That was a directive that was issued overnight by Governor Walls
in Officer Mitchell's honor describing him as a dedicated public servant.
Coming up in the next half hour.
We'll hear more from the mayor of the city of
Minneapolis about how he's promising to honor the fallen officer Jason
just heartbroken for his family and the community here, Audrey. Thank you.
And there's still a lot to learn about this situation.
You can follow the latest developments on air and online
at carle.com
time on 607 this morning.
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