Minneapolis shooting: man shot dead by federal officers was 37-year-old US citizen, police chief says – live updates

Officials plead for calm amid ‘anger and questions around what happened’; shooting comes less than three weeks after ICE officer killed Renee Good

• Man shot by federal agents in Minneapolis has died

In a statement sent to the Guardian, assistant secretary of homeland security Tricia McLaughlin said that at 9.05am local time, “as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis” against a person they said was in the country illegally, who she said was “wanted for violent assault”, “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.”

McLaughlin said that “the officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted” and that “more details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.”

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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