Steven E. Meyer marks the city's 31st homicide of the year.

​A 36-year-old Eden Prairie Man was fatally shot this this weekend in north Minneapolis, marking the city's 31st homicide of 2011.

Steven E. Meyer was shot in the abdomen Saturday afternoon and died hours later at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. Police are calling it a homicide, but no suspects are currently in custody.

The 911 call came in around 3:40 p.m. Saturday.

When police arrived, Meyer's car was crashed at the corner of Girard and 43rd avenues.

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​Felix Pedraza is the lead suspect in a case of a weekend party that resulted in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old father of three Francisco Hernandez.

Minneapolis police were called to a south Minneapolis apartment complex, where they found a man, later identified as Hernandez, suffering from gunshot wounds. First responders attempted to resuscitate Hernandez, but he was declared dead at the scene by EMS.

Cops soon arrested Pedraza, who had left the scene and was himself bearing stab wounds from the incident. Inside the apartment-turned-murder-scene, police found more than 10 adults and several children, who had apparently been attending a party at the time of the deadly altercation.
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​St. Paul is experiencing a remarkably peaceful year in terms of violent crime. Before last night, the city's had only five homicides in 2011. But the month of October has been marred by a sudden spree of violence, which finally turned deadly last night when a man was killed during an altercation at his home.

St. Paul Police were called to a residential neighborhood, where through the window they witnessed two men struggling with each other. After cops burst through the door, they found one of the men dead. The other was forcibly subdued, and has been taken into custody.

The sixth St. Paul homicide of 2011 comes near the tail end of a rare time of violence in that city: Aside from last night's killing, eight people in the city have been shot during the month of October.
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​Dekoda Galtney has been identified as the man killed in a shooting last night in St. Paul. Galtney, 24, was fatally shot around 6:30 p.m. last night.

After the shooting, which took place at 4th Street East and Bates Avenue, Galtney's friends rushed him to the emergency room and Regions Hospital, but he was beyond saving. As many as six shots were fired, according to witnesses at the scene.

St. Paul Police have arrested a 24-year-old man whom police say is connected with Galtney's murder.
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​The city of St. Paul, in the mist of an astonishingly quiet year in violent deaths, was the site of a shooting homicide last night, bringing its annual total to just five.

Around 6:30 last night, police were called to East 3rd Street and Bates Avenue, but by that time the victim's friends had already taken him to Regions Hospital. The 24-year-old man was declared dead at the hospital shortly after he arrived, according to KSTP.

Police are investigating, but no suspects are in custody.

While Minneapolis has suffered through a violent summer and early fall, with a spate of youth violence, St. Paul had been virtually silent for nearly four months.
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​Jeffery Paulson has been identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office as the man killed in a homicide early Sunday.

Paulson, 46, lived in an apartment above Otter's Saloon, but was stabbed in a different apartment in the building, not his own, the Star Tribune reports. Paulson was found stabbed, and taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he survived until late Wednesday night.

There were several witnesses at the scene, and one man was arrested and released, but he was released from jail without charge.
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​A stabbing victim found just after midnight on Sunday made it through part of the week, but died late Wednesday night.  The 46-year-old victim, who has not yet been identified, was found stabbed inside an apartment building on the 600 block of Central Avenue Northeast.

He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, but succumbed to his stab wounds two days ago.

Minneapolis Police Sgt. Steve McCarty said several witnesses were still on the scene at the time police arrived, and one man was arrested.
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​Jawon Osburn has been named as the 16-year-old victim of a gunshot homicide that happened Monday night.

Osburn, identified by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, was found shot on the 2900 block of Dupont Avenue, and declared dead on the scene after paramedics were unable to resuscitate him. Osburn's name joins those of Quantell Braxton and Ray'jon Gomez to make up a tragic triumvirate of juveniles shot to death in the last month. Braxton, 14, and Gomez, 13, were murdered during the same weekend last month.

Speaking on WCCO radio yesterday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan said investigators don't think that the shooting of Osburn, Monday's victim, was tied in with the deaths of Braxton and Gomez. But he did say it's part of a disturbing trend that's new to him, and to this city.

"In my 34 years," Dolan said, "I've never seen people this young that are targeted -- targeted intentionally."
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​At 7:30 p.m. last night, police responded to a call of a man down at Dupont Avenue North, but when they got there, it wasn't a man they found.

The surge in youth violence in north Minneapolis continued last night, with the death of a 16-year-old boy. Paramedics tried to revive the teenager, but he was beyond saving and declared dead at the scene. The boy's identity has not been released by police.

The boy's death was the third juvenile homicide in north Minneapolis in the last month, along with the shootings of 14-year-old Quantell Braxton and 13-year-old Ray'jon Gomez in late August.

As in Braxton's case -- where someone shot up a peace rally held in his name, wounding one -- violence led to more violence: Last night, a moment of mob violence broke out among mourners, KSTP reports.
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​Mijamin Forest, a 29-year-old man from Brooklyn Park, has been identified as the victim of a South Minneapolis homicide, the Star Tribune reports.

Police were called to the 3200 block of Blaisdell Avenue South around 8 p.m. on Friday night, where they found Forest shot outside of an apartment building. Forest was declared dead at the scene.

No arrests have been made in the case, which has been turned over to the Minneapolis Police Homicide Unit.
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