In the early hours of July 28, 2024, a burst of gunfire on a north Minneapolis street marked the final moments of Omari Kwakou Thomas's life. Thomas, a 45-year-old Black/African American man from the nearby suburb of Brooklyn Center, was found on a sidewalk in the 3200 block of North Penn Avenue around 1:10 a.m. by officers responding to a ShotSpotter notification. He was suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound to his abdomen. The shooter had vanished before police arrived at the scene.
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