Eight people were wounded, including four with critical injuries, in a shooting at a homeless camp on private property in Minneapolis, police said Tuesday.

The shooting happened just hours after and 2 miles away from another South Minneapolis shooting that left five injured near a Metro Transit Blue Line rail station as city officials acknowledge a spate of recent violent crime in the area.

The mass shootings came during a particularly violent summer for the Minneapolis area. That includes the June assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband in their Brooklyn Park home, as well as the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife the same day in Champlin. A mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in late August killed two children a

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