Mark Profit, an 18-year-old Black male from Minneapolis, was killed late on the night of September 25, 2015, in the Willard-Hay neighborhood on the city’s North Side. Just after 10:30 p.m., police were sent to the 1800 block of Newton Avenue North after a ShotSpotter alert reported gunfire. When officers arrived, they found him in front of a house with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead, and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner later publicly identified him.
Another man was also struck in the same burst of violence, shot in the foot and taken to North Memorial with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Early reporting painted the scene as sudden and brutal, the kind of neighborhood eruption that leaves people standing under flashing lights trying to understand how a young life ended in a matter of seconds. 
What emerged in the first days after the shooting was only a partial outline of what happened. Minneapolis police said Profit was believed to be the intended target, but they did not release a description of any suspect. News reports at the time said the shooter, or shooters, remained at large, and by September 29 no arrests had been announced. Publicly available online coverage tied to the case is sparse after those initial reports, and I did not find reliable online reporting showing any later arrest, charge, trial, or conviction in Mark Profit’s killing. What remains in the record is a brief, haunting sketch: a young man gunned down on a Minneapolis street, a second victim wounded, investigators searching for answers, and a case that, at least from the public reporting available online, never received the kind of resolution that would explain who pulled the trigger and why. 
