July 2024. Blues Vol 40 No.7

AROUND THE COUNTRY

AROUND THE COUNTRY ACROSS THE US The Latest Breaking News as we go LIVE. 911 TRANSCRIPTS DETAIL CHAOS OF MASS SHOOTING THAT KILLED MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER. By Liz Sawyer, Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS — Bullets rang out while she was in the bathroom. The caller emerged to find a horrific sight: two men mortally wounded inside the south Minneapolis apartment. Her partner lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head and was barely breathing. She hid, fearing the shooter would return for her. “My boyfriend has been killed inside this house. I need you to hurry up … and save him,” she told the 911 operator. Newly released transcripts offer a real-time window into the frantic and chaotic moments before officers arrived at the scattered scene of a mass shooting in Whittier on May 30 that killed four people, including Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell, and injured three others. The transcripts include dozens of panicked emergency calls from bystanders, witnesses and victims who watched the mayhem unfold on a busy Blaisdell 62 The Blues - July ‘24 Avenue street last month. They include accounts from a motorist who admits to ramming the suspected gunman as he attempted to rob a man of his scooter, an innocent driver shot while passing through the intersection with his toddler in the car, and a former police captain desperate for help evacuating his children from a nearby apartment building. The initial 911 call came in around 5:15 p.m., when the unidentified woman pleaded with dispatchers to send help after discovering her 36-year-old boyfriend unresponsive with obvious head trauma. Another man lay dead in the kitchen. “Okay, did you see who did it?” the dispatcher asked. “No, can you just please hurry?” the woman begs. She inquires about how to treat the wound — and whether she should move his body. The dispatcher instructs the woman to stay by his side and remain on the phone. “He’s all I have,” she later says, sobbing. “Please.” That man, Mohamed Bashir Aden, died at the hospital eight days later. Osman Said Jimale, 32, died at the scene. It’s still not clear what led up to the rampage, which spilled outside and down the block. Officer Mitchell never made it

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