On May 26, 2021, Nada Rene Monique Aakwaadizi, a 24-year-old Native American woman, was found dead in her Brooklyn Park, Minnesota apartment. The cause of her death was determined to be multiple gunshot wounds, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.
Police were called to the Garden Gates apartment complex early that morning after reports of gunfire. Responding officers discovered evidence of gunshots that had penetrated the walls of an apartment.
The door to this apartment was barricaded from the inside. After a standoff of more than two hours, a SWAT team entered the residence and found both Nada Aakwaadizi and a man, identified as 23-year-old Cordell Alexander Page Jr., deceased.
Investigators concluded that the incident was a murder-suicide, with Page shooting Aakwaadizi before taking his own life. According to reports, Page had been seen at Aakwaadizi's apartment on a few occasions prior to the incident.
