On Thursday evening, a shooting killed a Minneapolis police officer, a suspected gunman and a civilian and injured at least four others, including a Minneapolis Police Department officer and a firefighter, after a shooting on Blaisdell Avenue, a few minutes south of downtown Minneapolis. As Minnesota Public Radio reported, Officer Jamal Mitchell, 28, died in the shooting, ambushed as he was trying to render aid to someone – the suspected gunman -- who was injured about a block away from the reported shooting site. A second officer arrived and returned fire, killing the suspect, according to reports. Officers found two men shot in the apartment complex. One died and the other, though gravely injured, was still alive at the hospital on Thursday evening.
CNN’s report on the tragedy included a clip from last year, when the network had interviewed Mitchell after he rushed into a burning home to rescue a couple in their 80s. The incident is one of roughly 180 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to CNN, which cited the Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.