Blood marked the snow Tuesday outside a suburban Richfield, Minneapolis school where police say two students were shot, one of them fatally.
Richfield police say two people are in custody in connection to the shooting, which happened just after noon on the sidewalk outside South Education Center, located on the 7400 block of Penn Avenue South.
About six hours after the shooting, two search warrants were executed simultaneously at different locations in Minneapolis, police say. One gun was recovered, but it’s not clear if it was used in Tuesday’s shooting. Police say the two in custody are their only suspects.
Hennepin County Jail records show an 18- and 19-year-old arrested by Richfield police and being held on suspicion of murder, but officials have not confirmed these are the suspects in Tuesday’s shooting.
Police Chief Jay Henthorne called the event a “tragic day in the city of Richfield.” Responding police officers found the two students wounded at the school. Emergency crews brought them to Hennepin Healthcare, where one of them died. The other student remains in critical condition.
While officials have yet to release the victims’ names, close family friends tell WCCO the student killed was 15-year-old Jahmari Rice.
South Education Center will be closed Wednesday. The shooting remains under investigation by local, state, and federal agencies, including the ATF and the FBI. Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI at 1-800-225-5324 or the ATF at 1-888-ATF-TIPS.
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