One dead after fight near the U

Updated: 8 p.m. | Posted: 9:08 a.m.

Minneapolis police are investigating a fatal fight between two men that occurred late Sunday night near the University of Minnesota campus.

At about 11 p.m., police responded to a report of an altercation near University Avenue Southeast and Oak Street. Officers took one man into custody. The other was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with critical injuries.

He died at the hospital a short time later. He was later identified in a statement by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner as 27-year-old Derrick Lawrence Geshick Jr. The cause of death was blunt force trauma, the statement said, and the death was ruled a homicide.

Police say their initial investigation indicates the two men had encountered each other at a nearby bar, Sally's Saloon.

Police ask that anyone with information about the incident contact them.

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