Minneapolis ‘hero’ cop Jamal Mitchell gunned down while trying to help mass shooting suspect, who was pretending to be a victim
The Minneapolis police officer gunned down in an ambush-style attack tried to help the suspect who initially pretended to be a victim in need of medical assistance during Thursday’s mass shooting, according to officials.
Officer Jamal Mitchell, 28, responded to the shooting inside an apartment in the city’s trendy Whittier neighborhood, but rushed out of his car to aid victims about two blocks away from where the shooting was reported, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said in a press conference Thursday evening.
A man he had tried helping ended up being the suspect who gunned down the “courageous hero” who had been with the department for “less than two years.”