Luanyo Alomo Duangi, a 32-year-old African-American male, was found fatally stabbed inside Lowry Tower, the 17-story public housing high-rise at 315 Lowry Avenue North in Minneapolis, on March 6, 2008. Responding officers located his body in an eighth-floor hallway, and a criminal complaint later described multiple stab wounds. The building—known as Lowry Tower or Lowry Towers—houses nearly two hundred units and sits in the Hawthorne neighborhood on the city’s North Side, a setting where
residents later said the two men involved knew one another.
Police quickly focused on a man identified by witnesses and police at the scene only as “Oboya.” According to contemporaneous reporting that quoted a Minneapolis police spokesman, officers found him upstairs on the 17th floor with blood on his hands and recovered a bloody knife from his bathroom sink. He was booked and held on $500,000 bail as the case moved forward. Residents pressed housing officials for tighter security after the killing, underscoring how the violence rattled the tower’s community.
Publicly available records and open-source compilations list Duangi’s date of death as March 6, 2008, and do not show a final public resolution of the case, leaving the long-term outcome of any prosecution unclear in readily accessible sources. Some listings characterize the homicide as unresolved, even as early reports documented an arrest at the scene, a gap that suggests the charges may not have resulted in a publicly recorded conviction or that later proceedings were not widely covered.
