Frank Leonard Penny, a 39-year-old Black man, was killed in Minneapolis on November 16, 2015, in a burst of violence that also claimed the life of a young woman found with him inside a parked vehicle. In the dark hours just before 2 a.m., Minneapolis police officers on routine patrol heard gunfire near the 2800 block of South 15th Avenue and rushed toward it, only to find Penny inside the car with a gunshot wound to the torso. The woman with him, Erin M.
Miller, had been shot in the head and was taken to the hospital, where she later died. The scene suggested something sudden and deliberate, a targeted attack carried out in the quiet of a neighborhood street before officers could close in. 
What emerged publicly in the immediate aftermath was grim but limited. Authorities identified the dead through the Hennepin County medical examiner, and police said there was no indication the shooting was random, a remark that hinted investigators believed Penny and Miller were not chosen by chance. Yet the shooter was already gone when officers arrived. The case was described as a double homicide, but little was released about what led up to the gunfire, who may have been in the area, or what relationship, if any, linked the victims to the person who opened fire. 
As for arrests, the public reporting at the time was stark: no one had been taken into custody. Local coverage said no arrests had been made, and the available reporting did not name any suspect or suspects. In the online source material I found from mainstream reporting, there is no public account of charges, a trial, or a conviction tied to Penny’s killing. That leaves his death, at least in the public record surfaced here, as a case that opened with violence and urgency but faded into uncertainty, with the people responsible never clearly brought into view. 
