Derrick Gregory Martin's death near Lake Calhoun was gang related
Categories: Homicide Files
Minneapolis police now say that Derrick Gregory Martin's shooting death Monday night on the Lake Calhoun bike path was part of a gang war that appears to have spilled into a normally peaceful part of the city.
They found him on his hands and knees at about 11 p.m. after breaking up a party in the park adjacent to the lake, and investigating an earlier call for shots fired and windows broken at West Calhoun Parkway and 32nd Street.
Martin was from Brooklyn Park, and police say he has no connection to the neighborhood where he was shot.
His death is the 20th homicide in Minneapolis this year. Here are the others:
- May 21: Anton Warren, 31
- May 21: Romaze Stevens, 30
- May 4: DeCarl Antonio Starr, 18
- April 28: Amy Terborg, 28
- April 8: Tony Gale, 37
- April 2: Pauline Nash, 42
- March 30: Kenneth Sims, 21
- March 23: Robert Blake Castonguay, 26
- March 17: James E. King Jr., 20
- February 27: Alisha Neely, 17
- February 13: Drew Heinkle, 25
- February 4: Michael Fonta, 45
- January 17: Marvin Ray Maynard, 16
- January 20: Orlando Keith Nunn, 21
- January 8: Walter Lee Dolley Jr., 19
- January 6: Abdifatah Warfa, 28
- January 6: Mohamed Warfa, 30
- January 6: Anwar Mohammed, 31
- January 2: Dontae D. Johnson, 31
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