UNSOLVED: Trinity Ottoson-Smith murder 2021

9 year-old Girl Shot While Playing in Minneapolis
Crime Stoppers May 22, 2021
On Saturday May 15, 2021, Trinity Ottoson-Smith was shot in the head while playing on a trampoline in the 2200 block of Ilona Av. N in Minneapolis.  The 9-year-old girl was taken to North Memorial Hospital in critical condition.  Police have information that the shooter was in a red 4-door Ford vehicle.   More information is needed about the details of the vehicle, who was in it, and who the shooter was.

This shooting is one of three recent child shootings in Minneapolis that has prompted the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce to partner with Crime Stoppers of Minnesota and offer a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the shooter(s) in this tragic case.

Girl, 9, shot in the head at birthday party in Minneapolis is ‘fighting for her life’
Trinity Ottoson-Smith was struck by a bullet in the head last weekend.

Joe Nelson May 17, 2021

A 9-year-old girl who was shot in the head while playing outside in north Minneapolis continues to fight for her life.

According to an update Monday from her father, Trinity Ottoson-Smith “was innocently playing with some friends at a birthday party when she was senselessly shot by a drive by shooter.”

Minneapolis police said the Saturday shooting happened at approximately 8:32 p.m. on the 2200 block of Llion Avenue North. She was playing on a trampoline when a red, four-door car drove through the alley, with someone from the car opening fire, police said.

Officers arrived at the scene and due to the critical nature of her condition, they didn’t wait for an ambulance, instead rushing her in a squad vehicle to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale.

“Our baby is now fighting for her life in an ICU,” said Raishawn Smith, her father.

“Trinity is our baby… sweet, patience, loving, beautiful little lady. Loved by everyone that has had the chance to meet her. Big brown eyes that could tell no lies. Big bright smile that’ll heal any frown. She is everything to us,” her father wrote in a GoFundMe campaign.

The campaign aims to raise money to “buy her anything she needs to be comfortable.” As of 9 p.m. Monday, the fundraiser had generated just shy of $2,500.

Ottoson-Smith is in an ICU room next to 10-year-old Ladavionne Garret, Jr., according to FOX 9. Garret was struck in the head by a bullet while riding in a vehicle in north Minneapolis on April 30.

Prayer vigils for both children are being held daily at 6 p.m. outside North Memorial.

Another child was shot during an incident in Minneapolis on Monday night, with family saying the 6-year-old girl was struck in the head by a bullet on Monday night. She was one of two people shot during the incident, according to police, and both victims are in critical condition.

Trinity Ottoson-Smith, 9, Dies Days After Stray Bullet Struck Her At North Minneapolis Birthday Party
By WCCO-TV Staff May 27, 2021 at 10:42 pm

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Trinity Ottoson-Smith, the 9-year-old girl who was struck by a stray bullet 12 days ago while jumping on a trampoline at a friend’s birthday party in north Minneapolis, has died from her injuries.

Raishawn Smith, Trinity’s father, told WCCO’s David Schuman that she passed away late Thursday afternoon.

Trinity becomes the second young girl to die from a stray bullet to the head in north Minneapolis in the past eight days. Aniya Allen, 6, died on May 19, two days after she was shot while in her family’s car on the way home from McDonald’s.

On April 30, 10-year-old Ladavionne Garrett Jr. was also shot in the head while sitting in the back seat of his parents’ car, en route to his grandmother’s house in north Minneapolis.

MPD Public Information Officer John Elder said in a Thursday night press conference that Trinity was rushed to the hospital by responding officers in a squad car. He said “several teams of investigators” have been assigned to these three cases, and a “great number of tips” have come in. No one is in custody.

A $30,000 reward fund has been set up by the Minneapolis Regional Chamber in the effort to gather information that leads to arrests in these shootings.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Crime Stoppers anonymous tipline at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can also be submitted online via the Crime Stoppers website.

“Keep sending tips through Crime Stoppers. Help us solve crimes in your community. We have an incredible rate of arrests and charging when the community works with us,” Elder said. “We know full well people know what happened, who did this. Come forward with that info. You can remain anonymous and get a reward.”

Elder says homicides are at more than double what they were at last year, and four times as much as 2019. And shooting victims are “well over” what they were at in 2020.

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