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Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for lawmakers to back more public safety spending and tougher sentences for criminals after one person was 

shot just outside the Minnesota State Fair on Monday

shot at the fair’s Mighty Midway entrance

Walz said Monday night’s victim was discharged from the hospital with minor injuries and that police have a suspect in the shooting, which took place near Como and Snelling avenues just outside the fairgrounds.

Saturday’s gunfire closed the fair more than an hour before its scheduled closing time that night when police officers in the area heard a shot and found someone with a non-life-threatening injury. 

Walz called on judges to issue harsher penalties for those involved in shootings, and he renewed his call for lawmakers to 

approve additional funding for public safety

"There's too many guns on the streets, and 15-year-olds with guns shooting someone or a 20-year-old being shot last night — we have got to make it as difficult as possible for folks to be getting these guns,” Walz said.

The DFL governor said the shooters and the victims involved in both State Fair situations likely knew one another. He said that the victim in Monday night's shooting, as well as the shooting at the fair Saturday, refused to cooperate with police.

Dana Ferguson

Author

MPR News Staff

"There's too many guns on the streets,” Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday as he announced the victim from Monday’s night shooting just outside the fairgrounds had been discharged. Gunfire inside the fair Saturday night sent fairgoers running for cover.

Walz presses for tougher sentences, more funding following State Fair gunfire

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