Minneapolis police learned of shooting threats made by a gunman hours before he killed two people and shot five others, including two officers, at an apartment building in Loring Park a week ago.
New reporting from 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS confirms an officer filed a report about the threats around 12:41 p.m. on Sept. 2, about four hours before the shooting call came into dispatch. Minneapolis police said that no action was taken after that threats report was filed.
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Police said the day before the shooting, Carlton Johnson threatened to shoot a resident of the building and others. The next day, police took that threat report from an anonymous person and entered it into the department’s records management ...

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