Standoff ends in deadly FBI shooting in North Minneapolis

By H. Jiahong Pan

Contributing Writer ast Thursday afternoon, federal agents shot and killed a suspect in North Minneapolis while they were helping local officials serve a warrant. The shooting occurred around noon at Dowling and Dupont Avenue. The victim, 33-year-old Chue Feng Yang, was taken to North Memorial Hospital where he later died.

Although MPD officers were on the scene, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said none of his officers opened fire. Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said that although her deputies used force, they did not kill Yang.

Witnesses who live on the block where the shooting occurred say that the standoff started at 6 am. “I saw police and sheriffs make a U-turn and thought they were pulling someone over.” said a neighbor who declined to be identified. “A couple of minutes later, I looked outside and saw they were still there. I thought, ‘This is a long ticket!’ Then I heard someone say through a loudspeaker, ‘Stay in your home, this is a dangerous situation.’”

The children of a neighbor who lived near where Yang was killed said they saw two high-school-age children run from the home towards a police car before Yang was later shot. Although the neighbor’s children go to school with one of those who fled the house, they did not know the high school children that well and hardly saw them around the neighborhood.

A federal warrant for Yang’s arrest showed he was wanted for assaulting a federal officer and potentially possessing firearms, which is prohibited for someone convicted of a felony. Yang was also wanted on unrelated warrants in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, one of which was related to a probation violation for a conviction involving a 2021 carjacking. on page 5 the University of Minnesota, where he played football from 1963 to 1966. He was a huge supporter of Gopher sports, especially men’s basketball where he was a regular fixture at games. He also was the only Black member asked to serve on coaching search committees, and once was president of the school’s alumni association.

The Givens family was seen as Minnesota’s first Black millionaires. The family, Archie, Sr. and his wife, Phebe, built a successful real estate development business. As an adult, Archie Jr. took over the reins and led the business into the 21st century.

Givens’ Legacy Management & Development Corp. built 900 homes at the Northside’s Heritage Park housing development, a 123-acre site. He also built the Rondo Com- munity Library in St. Paul, and senior housing projects around the Twin Cities, including Edina. Archie Jr. and his sister Roxanne, with their parents’ influence, gave back to the community in so many ways, especially in the arts and culture. The Givens family, along with 12 other families in the community, initially put up the money to purchase a 3,000-piece collection of Black literature and other Harlem Renaissance artifacts in the mid-1980s from a New York collection. More than a decade earlier, Givens started The Givens Foundation for African American Literature that would provide scholarships for Black students to attend college. The literary works purchased by Givens led to the

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Active shooter incidents decrease while number killed increases in 2022

By Stacy M. Brown

ast Wednesday, the FBI revealed numbers showing a decline in active shooter situations and an increase in the number of victims shot in the United States during 2022.

The FBI defined an active shooter as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area” but stressed that their report is not comprehensive. Not included in the report were incidents involving self-defense, gang violence, drug violence, domestic disputes, hostage situations, and other illegal acts. While there was a drop from 2021 to 2022, an FBI official told reporters on a call that there has been an overall increase in the frequency of active shooter situations over the past 20 years, especially over the last five years.

There were 18 percent fewer active shooter incidents

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