Minneapolis shooting kills two, wounds three officers; suspect dead

On a Wednesday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, gunfire erupted inside a high-rise apartment building near the Convention Center, claiming two lives, wounding three police officers, and ending with the suspected gunman also dead. The violence arrived not in isolation but as part of a week already marked by mass shootings in Chicago, Trenton, and a Virginia elementary school — a recurring American rhythm of armed grief that tests the limits of emergency response and collective will. Authorities have yet to illuminate a motive, leaving the community to sit with loss before understanding can fo