Black/African American male Michael Alfred Johnson, 27, was shot just after midnight on July 26, 2025, in Minneapolis's East Phillips neighborhood, near 24th Street East and 18th Avenue South. Responding officers found him with at least one life-threatening gunshot wound; medics rushed him to Hennepin Healthcare, where he died. Later that day, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified him and ruled the death a homicide caused by a gunshot wound to the torso.
According to police and local reporting, the violence followed a verbal confrontation that escalated into gunfire in the street. Neighbors awoke to sirens as investigators marked shell casings and canvassed for witnesses around the intersection by East Phillips Park, a stretch of South Minneapolis that has seen repeated flashes of gunfire through the summer.
Authorities publicly appealed for tips and said no arrests had been made in the hours and days after the shooting. A city bulletin tied to case number 25-208202 asked anyone with information to contact detectives or CrimeStoppers, while news outlets reiterated that investigators were still searching for the shooter. As of those reports, there were no publicly identified suspects in custody connected to the death of Michael Alfred Johnson, 27.
In the aftermath, his name appeared among Minnesota's gun-violence victims, a brief entry marking the date and city while linking back to official sources. The listing sat alongside weekend headlines about multiple homicides under investigation across South Minneapolis, underscoring the community's bruising stretch of midsummer violence.
