MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minneapolis police say a man was shot after he asked a group of unhoused people to leave an alley behind a nightclub.

Minneapolis shooting behind nightclub

What we know:

Officers responded to reports of a shooting in an alley in the 300 block of 1st Avenue North just before 9:15 p.m., according to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

Police then found a man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.

MPD investigators believe the victim was "asking a group of unhoused individuals to leave the alley" when someone in the group opened fire, striking the man.

That group then fled the area before police arrived.

No arrests related to the incident have been announced, and the case is still being investigated.

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