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US MASS Killings-Minneapolis School; Little Native American Childen & Two Others
Minneapolis Shooting School Children, 8 And 10, Dead as Gunman Opens Fire.. Suspect Killed Himself
Minneapolis shooting suspect is charged in 4 homicides. The Native American community is shaken
Two children aged 8 and 10 - were killed following a horror shooting at a church during a Catholic School mass in Minneapolis, US
MailOnline 27 AUG 2025
MINNEAPOLIS - Six people who all knew each other were inside a vehicle when one, a man with an alleged gang connection, shot each of them in the head before fleeing, according to newly unsealed criminal charges in this weeks mass shooting in Minneapolis.
Three victims died at the scene early Tuesday. Another succumbed to his wounds Thursday. One remains hospitalized after being shot in the face but was able to identify the shooter to police, according to the criminal complaint.
And investigators believe a fifth person was killed hours later in retaliation. A suspect in the first shooting was arrested Thursday and has been charged with murder.
Police say the victims were all Native Americans and the shooting was gang related. The rash of violence has shaken one of the countrys largest urban Indigenous communities.
The first shooting happened on Tuesday just before midnight in a vehicle parked in the diverse residential and commercial neighborhood of Phillips in south Minneapolis. The county medical examiners office on Friday said the three who died at the scene were Evan Ramon Denny, 27 of St. Paul, Joseph Douglas Goodwin, 17, of Minneapolis and Merelle Joan White, 20, of Red Lake. Two had been shot multiple times.
A 20 year old woman was shot in the face and hospitalized in critical condition, the complaint said. She said the shooter was sitting in the back seat when he opened fire on her and everyone else in the vehicle before fleeing on foot.
A 28 year old man was hospitalized in grave condition but died shortly after the suspect was arrested on Thursday, police said. That victims name was still being withheld Friday.
About 13 hours later and a few blocks away, a man was killed near an apartment building that happens to house the Minneapolis office of the Red Lake Nation, one of the states largest tribes. The medical examiner identified him Friday as Tiago Antonio Gilbert, 34, of Minneapolis. He died of multiple gunshot wounds.
The Minneapolis police chief said Thursday it was entirely probable this second shooting was revenge for the first. But a police spokesman, Sgt. Garrett Parten, said investigators were still working to determine if there was a link.
The complaint against James Duane Ortley, 34, of Minneapolis, alleges that he and members of his family are associated with a gang known as the Native Mob, which operates in the citys south and other parts of Minnesota.
The gang was the subject of a multiyear federal investigation over a decade ago that resulted in the convictions of 28 people. Its alleged leader at the time was sentenced in 2014 to 43 years in prison.
The U.S. Marshals Service said its local fugitive task force and an FBI SWAT team arrested Ortley on Thursday afternoon. He was charged a day earlier with second degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Ortley has a felony assault conviction on his record from 2021, which the complaint said prohibits him from possessing guns or ammunition. Court records show he completed his probation in 2023. When police interviewed him in 2023 in a separate homicide investigation, the complaint said, he acknowledged that his street name was Baby James.
The victim who survived told police the shooter went by the street names Baby J, Little J and Little James, and was a friend of one of the victims, according to the complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.
The states 11 sovereign tribal nations issued a joint statement Thursday, mourning the deaths and urging anyone with information to contact city law enforcement or their own tribal police.
'As native peoples, we have always known grief, the statement said. But we have also always experienced the strength that comes afterward. We are here because our ancestors cared for one another.
That is how you are even here because someone before you chose love, protection, and community over despair'
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