Community Calls For Peace After Minneapolis Shootings
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It's been a violent few days in Minneapolis. Police say five people were shot overnight Saturday, while another was shot and killed on Friday.
The latest shootings happened around 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Plymouth Avenue in north Minneapolis. Community members have expressed some strong emotion in the wake of those shootings.
A passionate group gathered Sunday to call for an end to gun violence, saying enough is enough. The group gathered outside the 4th Precinct in north Minneapolis to speak out against the shootings.
Police say five people were shot early Sunday morning, three men and two women. All of the shooting victims are expected to recover. Officers are looking for suspects.
One local pastor says she lost her own son to murder, and she desperately wants people to know how painful it is.
"I know when my son got killed, it was so deep. I was never gonna get to talk to him again and that's been 28 years ago," Hattie Horne, a local pastor with True Love Church Ministries, said.
"You have to be there to see the grief and anger, the sense of loss that have gripped our various communities and families," Pastor Harding Smith, the president of Minnesota Acts Now, said. " We are here as pastors to say we feel the pain."
Pastor Harding also talked about the importance of witnesses to crimes coming forward and giving information. He says his group stands with police and believes they have to work together.
