A Minneapolis community is reeling after police say a man fatally shot his 2-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide early Monday morning.
According to the Minneapolis Police Department, officers were called to a home in the 2900 block of Colfax Avenue North around 12:20 a.m. on June 9. Inside, they discovered the bodies of a man in his 50s and his toddler daughter, both dead from gunshot wounds.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed that the man is believed to have killed his young daughter before taking his own life. Authorities noted that the child’s mother was in the home at the time of the incident but was not physically harmed.
“This is an unimaginable, heartbreaking tragedy,” Chief O’Hara said in a public statement. “Our hearts are with the child’s mother as she faces an overwhelming loss, and with the officers and investigators who responded to such a devastating scene.”
The identities of the deceased have not yet been released. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine and share the official cause and manner of death in the coming days.
Police have asked anyone with additional information about the case to come forward. The incident remains under active investigation, with authorities treating it as a murder-suicide.
The Minneapolis Police Department and a Hennepin County spokesperson have not yet provided further comment.
