3 killed – including a police officer and a suspect – and 3 others injured in Minneapolis shooting, authorities say

Three people were killed – including a Minneapolis police officer and a suspect – and three others were injured in a shooting Thursday evening in Minneapolis, police said.

Three people were killed – including a Minneapolis police officer and a suspect – and three others were injured in a shooting Thursday evening in Minneapolis, police said. The incident happened in the city’s Whittier neighborhood, authorities said. Among three surviving injured, one is a Minneapolis police officer and one is a firefighter, both of whom suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Assistant Police Chief Katie Blackwell said. The other person was “gravely injured,” she said. Police initially were called to the neighborhood on a report of a “double shooting” at an apartment building. When officers arrived, someone shot at them immediately, and the officers returned fire, Blackwell said. As a result of that shootout, one officer and the suspect was killed, and the other officer was injured, Blackwell said. Authorities eventually found two other civilians who’d been shot, one of whom died at the scene, Blackwell said. Police officer Jamal Mitchell, 28, was “ambushed” after “a very close encounter” with the suspect, according to authorities. Mitchell was shot a block and a half to two blocks away from the apartment as he attempted to render first aid to individuals who were injured, authorities said at a press conference Thursday night. “Mitchell was attempting to assist the individual that shot him,” said Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans. “And with that it happened very fast and that he ambushed him.”