Angelo Alexander Hill, a 17-year-old Black male, spent the early evening of July 5, 2022 in and around the lobby of an apartment building just south of downtown Minneapolis when a confrontation spiraled into gunfire. Shortly after 6:25 p.m., in the lobby at 10 East 18th Street—known as the Nico Apartments—an argument between Hill and a 16-year-old boy escalated.
Witness accounts gathered by police indicated the dispute turned into an exchange of shots inside the building, sending people scrambling and leaving shell casings and fear in a residential corridor steps from Nicollet Avenue. Hill fled into the street, collapsed about half a block away, and was rushed to Hennepin Healthcare. He could not be saved.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified him as Angelo Alexander Hill of Brooklyn Park and determined he died from multiple gunshot wounds. Officials recorded the manner of death as homicide, with the time of death at 7:00 p.m. that night. The scene description matched what investigators found: a brief, volatile encounter in a lobby followed by a desperate attempt to reach safety outside. The medical examiner’s release fixed the where and when with precision, drawing a tight circle around the minutes in which Hill’s life ended and the address that would anchor the case.
Police said the other teen involved—also gravely wounded—was found nearby and hospitalized. Early reports emphasized that both youths fired weapons during the altercation. In the days that followed, Hill’s death was counted among Minneapolis’s 2022 homicides, a statistic that did little to convey the suddenness of the conflict or its impact on the neighborhood. Community and regional outlets echoed the same stark outline: a lobby argument, two teenagers with life-threatening injuries, one of them gone within the hour.
Authorities asked for tips as the investigation proceeded. Publicly available reports at the time did not announce arrests or charges related to the shooting; the updates focused on the hospitalized teen and the ongoing nature of the inquiry. Listings that memorialized Hill placed his name among those lost to gun violence on that date in Minneapolis, underscoring the absence left behind while the official record remained spare: a location, an argument, the sound of shots, and a timeline measured in minutes.
