Mariela Hernandez Bonilla, age 20, female, Hispanic/Latina, was found fatally shot just after midnight on July 22, 2025, inside an apartment in Minneapolis' Windom neighborhood. Minneapolis police were called to the 100 block of East 59th Street around 12:37 a.m., where officers discovered Mariela Hernandez Bonilla and her older brother, both in their twenties, unresponsive, and their mother wounded.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner later confirmed that Mariela Hernandez Bonilla died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the chest and ruled her death a homicide.
Investigators determined the violence unfolded during a domestic dispute. According to police and subsequent medical examiner findings, the brother, identified by local reporting as 24-year-old Exal Eduardo Hernandez Bonilla, shot Mariela Hernandez Bonilla and their mother before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The medical examiner ruled Exal's death a suicide, and authorities described the incident as a domestic-related shooting contained to the home. The family's mother, a woman in her forties, survived her injuries and was transported for treatment with wounds that were not believed to be life-threatening.
Because the suspected shooter died at the scene, police did not announce any arrests. The case was treated as a murder-suicide with no ongoing threat to the public, and investigators documented the crime as part of a spate of summer shootings that drew attention to domestic violence dynamics in the city. Public death records list the location of injury and death for Mariela Hernandez Bonilla as 101 East 59th Street, with the medical examiner assigning the manner of death as homicide and the cause as a gunshot wound of the chest at 12:37 a.m. on July 22, 2025.
Remembrances and independent databases tracking gun violence later recorded Mariela Hernandez Bonilla, age 20, among those lost to gunfire in Minneapolis on July 22, 2025, echoing the official findings and timeline released by local authorities.
