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.
