Cody Fohrenkam, 38, of Cloquet, was initially sentenced to over 38 years in prison for the murder of 15-year-old Deshaun Hill Jr. in Minneapolis in Feb. 2023.

Minneapolis police say illegal drugs may have been involved in a deadly shooting on the city's northside Thursday afternoon.

An adult male was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in north Minneapolis. The shooting was reported at 4:15 p.m., in an alley on the 4200 block of Penn Avenue N., just north of the Washburn-McReavy Hillside Cemetery, according to police. The victim ran into the alley, where he was found by officers. He died at the scene.

A man was shot while trying to interrupt a robbery in Minneapolis overnight, according to police. Officers were called to a report of a shooting on the 1900 block of Hennepin Avenue around 1:47 a.m. on Monday. There, they found a man who had been shot — he was brought to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is investigating a shooting that left a man dead in Minneapolis on Thursday.