Kenneth Argaine Sims, 21, a Black male, was found shot to death in Minneapolis on March 30, 2010. According to publicly available accounts, officers discovered him in the backseat of a vehicle, and he had been shot multiple times. The Hennepin County burial record for a Kenneth J. Sims matching his age and date of death places his interment at Crystal Lake Cemetery in Minneapolis, anchoring the basic timeline and identity details of the case.
Investigators treated the killing as a homicide. Despite follow-up work described by local and state authorities for unsolved cases from this era, there has been no public indication of an arrest or a named suspect in connection with Sims’s death. The case is referenced among unsolved or cold-case resources maintained by Minnesota public-safety entities, which invite tips but do not list a resolution, and by independent homicide case compilations that summarize the incident as an unsolved shooting.
Sims’s death occurred during a year when Minneapolis experienced an elevated number of homicides compared with the prior year, a backdrop that drew media and academic attention to the city’s gun violence trends. While those broader reports do not resolve his case, they frame the climate in which detectives worked: a surge in killings and a citywide push for leads. As of the most recent public references, the homicide of Kenneth Argaine Sims remains open with no publicly reported arrests.
