MINNEAPOLIS — Amir Locke, a Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police during a search warrant operation early Wednesday, was not a target of the investigation that led to the predawn raid, according to multiple sources.
Locke, 22, was killed when members of the Minneapolis SWAT team stormed into a seventh-floor unit at the Bolero Flats Apartment Homes shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities say that one of the officers, Mark Hanneman, fired when Locke brandished a gun during the raid, which was tied to an ongoing St. Paul homicide case.
But, Locke was not a target of that investigation at the time of the shooting, according to three sources from separate law enforcement agencies. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case remains under investigation by the state Bureau of Investigation.
