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Crime, Law and Justice
MPR News Staff

Minneapolis home burns hours after fatal shooting

home charred after fire
A home on 15th Avenue South after it was rendered uninhabitable after a fire early on Saturday. Any connection between the fire and an earlier homicide in the home was not immediately known, according to police.
Grace Birnstengel | MPR News

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A fire Saturday morning in Minneapolis left a house uninhabitable just after hours a man was found shot to death inside the same building.

Police said any connection between the homicide and fire wasn’t immediately clear, and both remain under investigation.

Flames rage at home
This photo posted on social media by the Minneapolis Fire Department shows flames shooting out of a house on 15th Avenue South before the fire was put out early Saturday. Any connection between the fire and an earlier homicide in the home was not immediately known, according to police.
Courtesy Minneapolis Fire Department

Firefighters responded to the home on the 2700 block of 15th Avenue South at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday. They were able to put out the flames on the first floor on the home, but the fire had extended to the second story. Firefighters then began to fight the fire from the outside, before finally dousing the flames. No one was found inside the home at the time of the fire.

Just hours earlier, around 11:25 p.m. Friday, police responding to a report of a shooting found a man with a fatal gunshot wound inside the home. According to police, investigators believe the victim got into an argument with a man he knew, and that the altercation escalated into gunfire.

It is the 72nd homicide that Minneapolis police have investigated this year. Authorities have not reported any arrests in the case.