Activist: Man killed by police didn’t live in raided flat
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man fatally shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant in a homicide investigation did not live in the apartment that the SWAT team raided, according to a civil rights attorney citing the man’s family.
Authorities have released scant information about the man who was killed at the Minneapolis apartment Wednesday morning, including his identity. But Nekima Levy Armstrong, who is also a prominent community activist, said Wednesday night that family members told her the man was 24-year-old Amir Locke.
Levy Armstrong, whom the mayor appointed last year as co-chair on a community safety workgroup, said the family told her Locke didn’t live in the apartment that police raided, police had not been looking for him and that he wasn’t one of the three suspects named in the warrants. Law enforcement and city authorities have not corroborated any of these details.
The search warrants still were not publicly available Thursday.