The agency investigating the fatal shooting of a suspect during an arrest attempt in Minneapolis Thursday says evidence shows « the man fired his weapon from inside the vehicle. »
Demonstrators, protesting Thursday’s shooting death of Winston Boogie Smith Jr., blocked intersections as fires of debris burned nearby, video from the scene showed. Minneapolis police made « multiple arrests » in connection with the protests, they said in a news release. The relatives of Smith,32, have called for the release any video of Thursday’s deadly encounter, including from security cameras. Thursday’s shooting happened in an Uptown parking garage as a US Marshals Service task force was trying to arrest Smith, who was wanted on a state arrest warrant for possession of a firearm by a felon, authorities said. Though the marshals service did not say who was killed, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the slain man as Smith. Smith was in a parked car when the task force tried to arrest him. The suspect « produced a handgun » and failed to comply with officers’ commands, and the task force members shot him, the marshals service said. Evidence shows Smith « fired his weapon from inside the vehicle, » according to Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the killing.
