A Minneapolis SWAT team serving a warrant that led to an officer shooting Amir Locke was looking for his teenage cousin and two others in connection with a homicide investigation, according to the court documents released Tuesday.
Highlights
- Police were looking for the cousin of Amir Locke and two others in connection with a homicide investigation, court documents say.
- Locke’s cousin Mekhi Speed was among three people wanted in the case, court records show.
- Locke was shot by Minneapolis police after a SWAT team opened a search warrant for a Minneapolis apartment.
- Locke died of multiple gunshot wounds in February after police shot him, the city of Minneapolis says.
- Prosecutors say they plan to petition the court to try Speed, 17, as an adult for second-degree murder, in addition to the murder of Otis Elder, 38, in St.
- Paul, Minnesota, on January 10.