Crime, Law and Justice

Lawsuit alleges negligent medical care preceded murder-suicide
A lawsuit filed in Hennepin County alleges that the Park Nicollet health system’s failure to properly care for a patient with depression and anxiety led to the man killing himself and his family in 2015.
California festival gunman killed himself, officials say
The gunman who opened fire on a California food festival killed himself after officers shot him multiple times, officials said Friday, correcting previous police accounts that the officers fired the fatal bullet.
Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony moved to rehab
The family of a 5-year-old boy who survived being thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in April says he finally has been moved out of intensive care and into a rehabilitation program.
Police shoot, kill man in north Minneapolis confrontation
Officers responding to calls of shots fired just before 3 a.m. in the Hawthorne neighborhood found a woman wounded and an armed suspect. Officials say the officers’ body cameras recorded the confrontation.
The vandalism occurred at Lake Harriet Community School’s Upper Campus in southwest Minneapolis. Photos posted online showed a swastika spray-painted on a door to the school along with a threat using an anti-Semitic slur.
County, school failed in sex assault responses, Human Rights Department says
Stressing the need to protect children from sexual assault and hold adults in power accountable, the agency went public Thursday with legal actions it took against Ramsey County and a west metro high school.