Minneapolis Police Investigating 40th Homicide This Year

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Minneapolis, MN (KROC-AM News) - Minneapolis Police are investigating the city's 40th homicide this year.

A news release says officers responded to reports of gunfire around 3:20 Saturday morning and found a man with gunshot wounds in the driver's seat of a vehicle that was stopped in the median on Nicollet Avenue about a block west of the Minneapolis Convention Center. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators later learned a second man, who was not in the vehicle, had also been shot at the same location. Minneapolis Police say the second victim was taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in a private vehicle with non-life-threatening injuries.

The name of the victim has not been released and Minneapolis Police say there have not been any arrests in the case.