SW Minneapolis Residents Trapped By Downtown Shooting Scare
Friday afternoon, police SWAT teams combed an office building downtown after a 911 call.
At 11 a.m. on Friday morning, the Minneapolis Police Department received a chilling 911 call. A security guard on the 10th floor of the Retek Building at 50 South 10th Street, next to Target Corporation Headquarters said they heard something that sounded like gunshots. In the next minutes, police officers swung into action and tenants of the Retek and neighboring buildings implemented security plans. With some doors locked or guarded by police, and with workers asked to remain away from windows and inside their offices, thousands were stuck, including residents of Southwest Minneapolis. Rama Hart, a professor at the University of St. Thomas' downtown campus, was one of them. "I hoped it was a false alarm," Hart told Patch in an email on …
