MPR News PM Update

Feb. 8, 2022

A funeral is planned tomorrow for Jahmari Rice — the 15-year-old student who was killed outside a District 287 school in Richfield, Minn., last week. The service will be held at Hope Church in Richfield at 1 p.m.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled Rice’s death a homicide. Two other students at the school, aged 18 and 19, have been charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting. According to a criminal complaint from the Hennepin County Attorney’s office, the shooting came after an altercation between students that spilled out of the school and into the parking lot.

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