A woman is dead after two vehicles crashed during a high speed shootout through downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday night.
Minneapolis police were called shortly after 11 p.m. on a report that two cars were driving side by side and shooting at one another near Loring Park. Police say the vehicles traveled at a high rate of speed through downtown Minneapolis and crashed at the intersection of 5th Street and 6th Avenue in the North Loop near Target Field.
One of the cars struck a woman who was riding a scooter on the sidewalk.
That woman died at the scene.
"It is my understanding that the female on the scooter was doing exactly that, she was out on a scooter riding down the sidewalk and she was an innocent bystander of what appears to be a violent exchange between cars,” said police spokesperson Garrett Parten.
Four men inside the vehicles that crashed were taken to the hospital and guns reportedly found inside the vehicles.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or the vehicles speeding and shooting through downtown Minneapolis are asked to come forward with any information.