A man dies of multiple gunshot wounds Andre Anthony Riley Jr., a 24-year-old Black male, was killed in the early morning hours of July 3, 2016, in Minneapolis after violence broke out near 1113 W. Broadway, close to the intersection of Emerson and West Broadway. Police said the shooting happened shortly before 4 a.m. after an argument turned violent in a parking lot area on the city's north side.
When officers arrived, they found Riley dead at the scene, and investigators later confirmed that he had been killed by multiple gunshot wounds. The medical examiner classified his death as a homicide and listed the same North Minneapolis location as both the place of injury and the place of death.
In the first hours after the shooting, the scene was marked by confusion and grief. Authorities said that besides Riley, two other people arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds that were described as non-life-threatening, suggesting that what happened was not a single isolated shot but a burst of violence that rippled outward. Family members soon publicly identified the man who had been killed, and those early reports painted a picture of a young man whose death hit hard and immediately. Relatives gathered near the scene in anguish, mourning in public as the sun came up over a neighborhood once again forced to absorb another killing. News coverage from that day described his family speaking through shock, with loved ones saying he left behind a fiancee and a baby girl.
What stands out in the public record is how quickly the case turned from a breaking-news homicide into a search for answers that did not seem to come easily. Police said witnesses were in the area and that investigators were speaking with people who had been nearby, but early coverage also made clear that no arrest had been made at the time of the shooting. Publicly available later references to the case continue to place Riley among Minneapolis cold cases, which strongly suggests that the killing remained unsolved long after the gunfire faded and the immediate headlines moved on.
As for suspects, arrests, charges, trials, or convictions, I did not locate any reliable public reporting showing that a suspect was publicly named or that anyone was arrested and successfully prosecuted for Riley's killing. One later account about the case said the shooters believed they had the wrong person, but the available public sources do not appear to identify those shooters by name, and I did not find a confirmed court-linked report tying a defendant to this homicide. Based on the accessible online record, the clearest picture is of a deadly North Minneapolis shooting that took Riley's life in minutes, wounded two others, devastated his family, and, at least in the public-facing record, did not produce a publicly documented arrest or conviction.
