Ryan Abraham Whiteis-Saks, a 30-year-old White male, was found fatally wounded on the evening of Sunday, February 28, 2021, inside an upstairs apartment at 2406 Golden Valley Road in Minneapolis. First responders were called around 8:30 p.m. on a report that someone had stopped breathing; investigators soon determined violence had occurred. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified Whiteis-Saks and confirmed he died that night at the scene.
An autopsy determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death was homicide. The medical examiner’s press release listed the location of injury and death as the same apartment, with the time of death recorded at 7:41 p.m., and noted that Minneapolis police were investigating.
In the days that followed, authorities did not announce arrests or name any suspects in connection with the killing. Local reporting at the time stressed that police had released no information about what led up to the shooting, and there were no details indicating a suspect description or motive. Subsequent public-facing city dashboards and police information portals provide no case-specific update indicating an arrest tied to Whiteis-Saks’ death.
