Gallery: A woman was shot overnight in an alleyway on the 5100 block of Washburn Ave S. in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis. The BCA was on scene to investigate. 
 
 Gallery: Neighbors were confounded as to what happened the night before. A woman was shot overnight in an alleyway on the 5100 block of Washburn Ave S. in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis. 
 
 Gallery: A woman was shot overnight in an alleyway on the 5100 block of Washburn Ave S. in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis. The fire department helped clean up the crime scene. 
 
 Gallery: Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and assistant police chief Medaria Arradondo addressed the media. They declined to comment on details of the officer shooting of a woman in south Minneapolis the night before because the BCA is assigned to the case. 
 
 Gallery: Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and assistant police chief Medaria Arradondo addressed the media. They declined to comment on details of the officer shooting of a woman in south Minneapolis the night before because the BCA is assigned to the case. 
 
 Gallery: Friends and neighbors of Justine Damond held hands as a vigil to remember her began Sunday evening. 
 
 Gallery: Jay Peterson, left, comforted Corey Birkholz as they listened to a speaker at a vigil to remember Justine Damond on Sunday evening. 
 
 Gallery: Bethany Bradley leaned over to hug Melinda Barry as Leslie Redmond of the NAACP of Minneapolis began to speak to those gathered to remember Sunday evening. 
 
 Gallery: People listened as Bethany Bradley of Women's March Minnesota spoke at the beginning of a vigil to remember Justine Damond Sunday evening. 
 
 Gallery: A makeshift memorial was left at the scene where a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Monday, July 17, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN. 
 
 Gallery: Friends and community members left flowers at a makeshift memorial at the scene where a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Monday, July 17, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN. 
 
 Gallery: Chalk drawings and messages Sunday evening at the entrance to the alley near where Justine Damond was shot and killed. 
 
 Gallery: Megan O'Leary of St. Paul left a message on the sidewalk near the scene where a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Monday, July 17, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN. 
 
 Gallery: Melinda Barry comforted friends of Justine Damond near her home and the scene where a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed Justine Damond, Monday, July 17, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN. 
 
 Gallery: Detail of the larger memorial on the sidewalk on W. 51st. St. in the Fulton neighborhood. 
 
 Gallery: Detail of the larger memorial on the sidewalk on W. 51st. St. in the Fulton neighborhood Monday night. 
 
 Gallery: A neighbor added water to flower arrangements left on the sidewalk near the alley on W. 51st St. in the Fulton neighborhood Monday night. 
 
 Gallery: Some candles were lit as darkness fell at the memorial to Justine Damond on the sidewalk along W 51st. St. Monday night. 
 
 Gallery: Some candles were lit as darkness fell at the memorial to Justine Damond on the sidewalk along W 51st. St. Monday night. 
 
 Gallery: The sidewalk memorial to Justine Damond on W. 51st. St. in the Fulton neighborhood Monday night. 
 
 Gallery: "She was the bright light the world needed today," said friend Denise Houser at the memorial for Justine Damond. 
 
 Gallery: A photo of Justine Damond from her web site. The Sydney, Australia, native lived with her fiance in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis. 
 
 Gallery: Don Damond is comforted by friends and family after he made a statement to the press near his home after Minneapolis police officer shot and killed his fiance Justine Damond. 
 
 Gallery: Don Damond, fiance of Justine Damond, is comforted by his son Zach Damond before he made a statement to the press near his home in Minneapolis. 
 
 The death of Justine Damond, who called 911 to report a possible crime only to be killed by a responding Minneapolis police officer, has left her grieving family, neighborhood and nation demanding answers in the latest police-involved shooting to thrust Minnesota into the international spotlight. 
 
 While many of the details about what happened Saturday night in the city’s southwest corner have not been disclosed, this much was: She called to report a possible assault in the alley behind her house in one of the city’s safest neighborhoods and was unarmed when officer Mohamed Noor shot her. 
 
 Amid a public outpouring of grief and outrage, Chief Janeé Harteau issued her first comments on the shooting, saying she too wanted an explanation, and called on the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to perform a speedy investigation. 
 
 The Hennepin County medical examiner said Monday evening that Damond, also known as Justine Ruszczyk, died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. 
 
 Noor, a second-year officer whose identity became public Monday, has retained a lawyer. Attorney Thomas Plunkett said in a statement that Noor “takes these events very seriously.” 
 
 “He joined the police force to serve the community and to protect the people he serves,” Plunkett said. “Officer Noor is a caring person with a family he loves, and he empathizes with the loss others are experiencing.” 
 
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 Sources identified Noor’s partner on the scene, who did not fire any shots, as officer Matthew Harrity, 25, who earned his peace officer’s license last year. A spokeswoman for the BCA confirmed there was no weapon found at the scene, creating even more mystery about how Damond’s call to police ended in one of the responding officers fatally shooting her. 
 
 A source said Damond’s cellphone was found near her body. 
 
 “We lost the dearest of people and are desperate for information,” Damond’s fiancé, Don Damond, said Monday afternoon in his first public comments. “Piecing together Justine’s last moments before the homicide would provide small comfort as we grieve this tragedy.” 
 
 Just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Damond, 40, called 911 to report a possible assault occurring in an alley near her home between Washburn and Xerxes avenues S., in the Fulton neighborhood. 
 
 Damond, in her pajamas, went to the driver’s side door of the responding squad and was talking to the officer, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the case. 
 
 Moments later, Noor shot across his partner from the passenger’s seat, killing Damond. 
 
 The incident comes just weeks after the acquittal of then-St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, who fatally shot Philando Castile in a high-profile incident whose aftermath was broadcast live on Facebook, and less than two years after the Minneapolis police shooting of Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man. 
 
 The Damond shooting is front-page news across her native Australia, and correspondents from major news outlets in the country flew to Minneapolis on Monday to cover it. 
 
 The Sydney Morning Herald’s headline in Monday’s newspaper was “American Nightmare.” 
 
 “The Australian public and media go nuts for anything involving Australians overseas,” said Andy Ruzgar of 5AA Radio in Adelaide, South Australia. “This particular case is so bizarre. People are gripped by the story.” 
 
 Ruzgar said for two fairly similar countries culturally, the gun culture in the United States fascinates Australians. 
 
 “No one can have a gun in Australia,” he said. “And you would barely hear of a police shooting all over the country once a year. We just don’t have that culture.” 
 
 In the Twin Cities, the shooting exacerbated already-strained tensions between police and community members calling for more accountability within the department. 
 
 “I have many of the same questions and it is why we immediately asked for an external and independent investigation into the officer-involved shooting death,” said Harteau, who was out of state “on a personal commitment” but was receiving regular briefings and would return soon, according to a police spokesperson. “I also want to assure you that I understand why so many people have so many questions at this point. I’ve asked for the investigation to be expedited to provide transparency and to answer as many questions as quickly as we can.” 
 
 Harteau offered no further details and no explanation as to why the two officers were not recording on body cameras when Noor shot Damond. 
 
 The sequence of events was captured in part by police radio, published by website Minnesota PoliceClips, which records police-related media. 
 
 Officers responded to a report of a “female screaming behind the building.” Moments later, an officer reported “shots fired … one down at Washburn,” and an officer says he was performing CPR. About a minute after the shooting, an officer says there are “no suspects at large.” 
 
 On Monday, the BCA said in a news release that officers were responding to a 911 call of a possible assault, and “at one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman.” 
 
 After confirming Sunday that there was no body camera or dashcam footage of the incident, the agency said the investigation “does not determine whether a law enforcement agency policy was violated. That would be reviewed through the agency’s internal affairs process.” 
 
 Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said his office is monitoring the case, and he would decide himself whether to charge Noor with the shooting, rather than a grand jury — echoing the Clark case, in which he decided not to charge the officers and released evidence from the investigation. 
 
 Freeman said he believes Noor’s body camera should have been running at the time of the shooting. 
 
 “I do understand this, they were driving down an alley, the victim approached the car. That’s not necessarily a time you must [be taping], but frankly I think it’s a time you should,” he said. 
 
 Gov. Mark Dayton had no comment Monday on the shooting. 
 
 Law enforcement had previously criticized Dayton for comments he made after Castile was killed by Yanez. 
 
 Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor 
 
 Meanwhile, amid more questions than answers, the family and neighborhood mourned. 
 
 Flanked by his family in front of his home, Don Damond read a brief statement saying his fiancée called 911 to report “what she believed was an active sexual assault occurring nearby. … Sadly, her family and I have been provided with almost no information from law enforcement regarding what happened after police arrived.” 
 
 Over the past two days, friends, neighbors and strangers gathered to memorialize Damond. Some left heartfelt messages in chalk on the sidewalk near the scene, others laid flowers and paused in silent meditation. 
 
 “This is about Justine; it’s about Don. 
 
 “A horrific thing has happened in their lives, but it reverberates through the community,” said neighbor Richard Burbach, looking on as Australian news crews gathered around the home. 
 
 “I hope that the global media can continue to put enough focus on this that there is a kind of pressure that will … change policing, not just in Minneapolis but the country as well.” 
 
 Staff writers David Chanen, Stephen Montemayor, Libor Jany, Pat Pheifer and Paul Walsh contributed to this report. ||||| The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's autopsy report, released Monday night, indicates Damond died from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, and that the manner of death was a homicide. 
 
 Noor joined the department in March 2015 and is currently assigned to the 5th Precinct in the southwest part of the city. 
 
 City records show one complaint against him was dismissed with no disciplinary action being taken. The other two remain open. 
 
 Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau is calling the officer-involved shooting "clearly a tragic death." 
 
 The chief said in a statement Monday afternoon: 
 
 I want to acknowledge the pain and frustration that family and community members have following the fatal officer involved shooting on Saturday night. This is clearly a tragic death. 
 
 I also want to assure you that I understand why so many people have so many questions at this point. I have many of the same questions and it is why we immediately asked for an external and independent investigation into the officer-involved shooting death. I've asked for the investigation to be expedited to provide transparency and to answer as many questions as quickly as we can. 
 
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 A source with direct knowledge of the shooting said Monday the officer fired at least once, killing the woman. The source said that Noor was sitting in the passenger seat at the time of the shooting. 
 
 Noor reportedly shot across his partner who was the driver of the squad at the time. The shooting occurred at 11:30 p.m. Saturday. 
 
 Noor issued a statement through attorney Tom Plunkett Monday afternoon: 
 
 "Officer Noor extends his condolences to the family and anyone else who has been touched by this event. He takes their loss seriously and keeps them in his daily thoughts and prayers," the statement read. 
 
 "He came to the United States at a young age and is thankful to have had so many opportunities. He takes these events very seriously because, for him, being a police officer is a calling. He joined the police force to serve the community and to protect the people he serves. Officer Noor is a caring person with a family he loves and he empathizes with the loss others are experiencing. 
 
 "The current environment for police is difficult, but Officer Noor accepts this as part of his calling. We would like to say more, and will in the future. At this time, however, there are several investigations ongoing and Officer Noor wants to respect the privacy to the family and asks the same in return during this difficult period." 
 
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 According to a source, the driver of the squad car was Matthew Harrity. Harrity was announced as a community service officer in January 2016, according to a city bulletin. 
 
 At last check, according to sources, neither officer had spoken to BCA investigators about the incident. 
 
 City records show Harrity has one open complaint on file. 
 
 The officers were responding to a 911 call made by the woman who had reported possible assault in the alley in the Fulton neighborhood. 
 
 Noor and Harrity have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure after shooting such as this. 
 
 Noor is the first Somali-American police officer in the 5th Precinct. He has a degree is business administration and economics from Augsburg College. 
 
 According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the incident, there have been 10 officer-involved shootings in 2017 so far in Minnesota. Those shootings include both fatal and non-fatal incidents. The BCA has investigated nine of those 10 incidents. 
 
 Meanwhile, there were 13 deaths from officer-involved shootings in 2016, 13 in 2015 and seven in 2014. 
 
 The BCA said the investigation into the incident continues and that additional details will be provided once interviews with the officers are complete. 
 
 The release said those interviews have been requested and the officers are working with their attorneys to schedule them. 
 
 The release again stated the officers' body cameras were not turned on at the time and that squad video did not capture the incident. It continued to say the BCA investigation will not determine whether a law enforcement agency policy is violated. 
 
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 That, the release said, will be reviewed through the department's internal affairs process.
– Relatives, neighbors, and even the chief of police are demanding answers after the fatal shooting of an Australian woman in Minneapolis Saturday night. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau says she wants to know why a police officer fatally shot Justine Damond, and she has called for a speedy investigation, the Star Tribune reports. Damond, 40, was shot dead after her fiance says she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home. The officer involved has been identified as Mohamed Noor, who joined the force in 2015 and has three complaints against him on file, reports KSTP. The two officers at the scene did not have their body cameras turned on and there are no other known witnesses to the shooting. Damond was reportedly shot in the abdomen after approaching the arriving squad car in her pajamas. Don Damond, her American fiance, said Monday that the family has been told almost nothing about the shooting. "Our hearts are broken and we are utterly devastated by the loss of Justine," he said, per the BBC. "Sadly her family and I have been provided with almost no additional information from law enforcement regarding what happened after police arrived." Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is handling the investigation, says more information will be released after it interviews Noor and partner Matthew Harrity, a community service officer who was reportedly speaking to Damond, who was due to be married in August, when she was shot. More here.