MINNEAPOLIS — A man lying on the ground and faking to be a shooting victim shot a killed Minneapolis police officer. It was an ambush, said Drew Evans, chief of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Evans said he had seen the video: “I’m using the term ‘ambush’ for a reason.” Killed was Jamal Mitchell, who had been on the police force 1-1/2 years. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police reported is sequence:
> Police responded to a call of a double shooting at an apartment in the Whittier neigborhood in south Minneapolis.
> Mitchell, two blocks away, he saw an injured individuals on the ground.
> Mitchell got out of his squad car to assist,
> One of them shot Mitchell.
> Another officer arrived and exchanged gunfire with the shooter.
> The shooter died despite life-saving efforts by officers.
Whether the two shooting scenes were related wasn’t immediately clear, police said. At the apartment to which the original call was made, police found two who had been shot. One was dead and the other was hospitalized in critical condition.
Mitchell. Badge 1867. A father and engaged to be married.