In a 24-hour span, nine people have been shot in Minneapolis, resulting in five fatalities, police say. The outburst of deadly violence began late Tuesday night when five people were shot near an alley off East 25th Street and Bloomington Avenue in the Midtown Phillips area.

Investigators strongly suspect that a pair of shootings three blocks apart in Minneapolis that left four people dead and two others seriously injured were connected and were gang related, the police chief said Wednesday.