A woman is fatally shot in South Minneapolis Victoria Ann Day, a 23-year-old woman from Minneapolis, was found dead in the early hours of April 16, 2016, in an alley behind a residence in south Minneapolis, near the 2200 block of 10th Avenue South. Police were called at about 1:20 a.m. on a report of a person down, and when officers arrived they found her at the scene with apparent gunshot wounds. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner later ruled her death a homicide and said she had died from multiple gunshot wounds.

In the first days after her death, the case carried the uneasy atmosphere of a neighborhood shaken awake by violence. Investigators said they did not believe Victoria had been chosen at random, a detail that gave the killing an even more personal and troubling edge. Minneapolis police said homicide detectives were pursuing several leads, while extra patrols were sent into the area as officers tried to steady a community already rattled by a rise in shootings that year. Even with that early push, the public record did not produce the kind of breakthrough that turns a killing into a solved case. 
Away from the crime scene, the picture that survives of Victoria is gentler and painfully ordinary in the way such losses often are. Her obituary says she was born in Minneapolis on April 23, 1992, the daughter of Elmer Lee Day and Regina Oldman, and remembers her as someone who was helpful to family and friends and who especially loved spending time with her nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held a few days later at Church of Blessed Kateri in Minneapolis, while the city was still trying to understand how her life had ended in an alley before dawn. 
As for suspects, arrests, and prosecution, the online record that is publicly visible is notably thin. Early reporting said no arrests had been made, and in the material available online there is no clear public announcement identifying a suspect, no publicly reported charging document tied to her killing, and no reported conviction in the case. In other words, the story appears to fade from the headlines after those first urgent reports, leaving Victoria Ann Day’s death standing, publicly at least, as a homicide without a named offender brought to justice. 
