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CBS News
30-06-2025
- CBS News
Community remembers 11-year-old killed in Minneapolis park
Friends, family and community members took over the streets Sunday, marching down Dowling Avenue Sunday afternoon, to the park where 11-year-old Amir Atkins took his last breath. Leading the march Sunday, is a man familiar with both gun violence and loss. "We need to put the guns down and love up," said Cortez Rice. Three years ago, Rice lost his 15-year-old son, Jahmari, after he was gunned down outside a school in Richfield. "We're taking hits after hits after hits, and these is young lives that are being taken from us," said Rice. "He touched all of our lives," said Atkins' grandmother, Kim Fate. Fate said her grandson was a bubbly, feisty boy, who loved Spiderman, football and basketball. He just made the wrong friends, she said. "I just think that he was negatively influenced. What he was looking for, I don't know, but he was too young to be out here in these streets," said Fate. Community members are now pleading for an end to gun violence and for the shooter to take accountability. "Whoever did this, I want you to know I hope you don't rest and sleep, because what you did was wrong to my grandson," said Fate. Minneapolis police said Sunday, they continue to search for suspects and a motive.
CBS News
30-06-2025
- CBS News
Community remembers 11-year-old murdered in Minneapolis park
Friends, family and community members took over the streets Sunday, marching down Dowling Avenue Sunday afternoon, to the park where 11-year-old Amir Atkins took his last breath. Leading the march Sunday, is a man familiar with both gun violence and loss. "We need to put the guns down and love up," said Cortez Rice. Three years ago, Rice lost his 15-year-old son, Jahmari, after he was gunned down outside a school in Richfield. "We're taking hits after hits after hits, and these is young lives that are being taken from us," said Rice. "He touched all of our lives," said Atkins' grandmother, Kim Fate. Fate said her grandson was a bubbly, feisty boy, who loved Spiderman, football and basketball. He just made the wrong friends, she said. "I just think that he was negatively influenced. What he was looking for, I don't know, but he was too young to be out here in these streets," said Fate. Community members are now pleading for an end to gun violence and for the murderer to take accountability. "Whoever did this, I want you to know I hope you don't rest and sleep, because what you did was wrong to my grandson," said Fate. Minneapolis police said Sunday, they continue to search for suspects and a motive.
CBS News
03-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Witness recounts chaos during fatal Boom Island Park shooting in Minneapolis
A witness to Sunday's deadly mass shooting at Boom Island Park in Minneapolis says he heard bullets everywhere in what sounded like nearly continuous gunfire. The shooting killed one woman and injured six others. Cortez Rice says he saw multiple shooters with their faces covered. "I see everybody just start running," he said. "I turn my music down [in my car] and I can hear the shots going off, 'Pop pop pop.'" Rice pulled up to the park right when the shooting started. He was there to see family, who were celebrating a birthday. One of his relatives' cars was hit with gunfire. "I see the guy sitting on the edge of the window [of a car]," Rice said. "His upper body is out of the vehicle, and he got a black ski mask on. All I can see is, 'Boom, boom, boom, boom.' What? Like this is insane!" Stageina Whiting, 23, was killed in the shooting. The man who appears to be the father of her child wrote on Facebook in a post that's been shared hundreds of times, "I'm hurt you my whole heart [broken heart emoji] y'all robbed me." Five men were also shot. One of them has life-threatening injuries. Rice lost his own son in a 2022 shooting. He says being at the park Sunday was re-traumatizing. "When stuff like this happens, it just doesn't affect the families who lost someone, but it affects the people that's involved," Rice said. "There was a caucasian family that was right there, and they're sitting on the ground crying." No arrests have been made. Minneapolis City Councilmember Michael Rainville, whose ward includes Boom Island Park, says he's asked that the parking lot be closed every night at 8 p.m. "until it is determined to be unnecessary." The parking lot was open as of 8:30 p.m. Monday.
New York Times
25-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Remembering George Floyd
Five years after a police officer murdered George Floyd, my colleagues and I attended events at the Minneapolis intersection where he was killed and in his hometown, Houston. They were both a tribute and a rallying call. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Zsa Zsa Floyd, George Floyd's oldest sister, and Arianna Delane, his great-niece, were among the relatives who attended the memorial service in Houston. Zsa Zsa Floyd recalled her brother's faith in God. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times The lawyer Ben Crump condemned efforts to rewrite the history of the killing, which set off global protests in 2020. 'George Floyd was a watershed moment for the world,' he told people later in the day. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times A permanent installation in Tom Bass Park, in Houston, includes images of Floyd and an essay he wrote as a child saying that he aspired to be a judge. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times At George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, once the epicenter of protests, organizers of a festival told us that they wanted to observe the anniversary with moments of joy. Ernesto Londoño/The New York Times Cortez Rice, a civil rights activist, spoke to Tracey Washington in the square. Her son was killed by police officers in Florida in 2023, and she said she wanted to be there to honor Floyd's memory. Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times 'It seems like things are starting to get worse,' Washington told me, talking about police killings, at a nearby art installation that includes a grave marker for her son. Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times Near the sidewalk where Floyd was killed, people prayed, cried, danced and hugged. Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times At the 'Say Their Names' art installation, people came to honor those who lost their lives to police violence. Additional reporting by Jay Senter and Shannon Sims
