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Joshua Ezeka killed Birdell Beeks on May 26, 2016 as the 58-year-old woman sat in her minivan at an intersection as Ezeka opened fire nine times on the street trying to take out a rival gang member. One of the bullets Ezeka fired hit Beeks, who was at a stop sign at 21st and Penn avenues.
The mother of 21-year-old twin daughters who outlined years of rape, beatings and torture in what one official called a "house of horrors" remained jailed after her first court appearance on the charges Monday in Hennepin County District Court.
State Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, is proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to fill the vacancy by appointment, rather than having the presiding officer of the Senate automatically ascend to the post.
Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro is heading to the University of Minnesota for another in a series of speeches aimed at spreading conservative ideas on campus. The author and former editor of the conservative site Breitbart News is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.
A Forest Lake City Council vote Monday night could stop the development of Minnesota's first residential psychiatric treatment facility for children in its tracks. The developers, The Hills Youth and Family Services, said the $20 million state-of-the-art facility would create about 150 jobs and offer resources for children ages 7 to 17.
A new poll found that 85 percent of Americans, including 89 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans, disapprove of the job Congress is doing. That might matter in this midterm election year, as Republicans defend their majorities in the House and Senate.
"You don't know until you're tested but I think I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon and I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too," Trump said at a White House meeting. He again found fault with the officers who didn't stop the gunman who carried out the massacre. "They really weren't exactly Medal of Honor winners," he added.
The very first responder to a Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people said Monday he never entered the building to confront the suspect because he believed the gunfire was coming from outside.
