Charles Means

Death by Force

Charles Means, a 21-year-old Black/African American male, was gunned down on the evening of Aug. 3, 2010, as Minneapolis neighborhoods gathered for National Night Out. He was found in an alley off the 2600 block of Penn Avenue North, where multiple shots were fired and the late-summer block parties gave way to sirens and police tape. The night—meant for cookouts and conversations—closed instead with officers working beneath streetlights and porch bulbs, marking casings and searching for a pa ...Read More