Details released for public's viewing of service for slain Minneapolis officer Jamal Mitchell
After the service, a law enforcement procession will take his body to the Twin Cities airport for his return to his native Connecticut. The memorial service for slain Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell, who was fatally shot last month, will be livestreamed and followed by a law enforcement procession to the Twin Cities airport. The public service for Mitchell will begin at 11 a.m. at Maple Grove High School gymnasium and last two hours, with seating limited due to limited seating capacity and limited parking near the school. After the service, an honors ceremony will be held outside the school, where law enforcement officers will join in formation and military jets will perform a flyover. The procession will take a route from the high school to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which is expected to cover more than 30 miles. Mitchell was raised and lived most of his life in Connecticut. Along with Mitchell, three others were killed in back-to-back shootings on S. Blaisdell Avenue on May 30.
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Tuesday's memorial service in Maple Grove for Minneapolis police officer Jamal Mitchell, who was fatally shot late last month, will be livestreamed followed by a law enforcement procession that will travel to the Twin Cities airport, organizers said Monday.
The public service for Mitchell in the Maple Grove High School gymnasium is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. and expected to last roughly two hours, the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced.
Seating for the general public will begin at 9 a.m., but space is limited. Also, the only parking near the school available to the public will be at the Maple Grove Parkway Station, 9870 Maple Grove Parkway. The parking lot opens at 8 a.m., and the first buses will leave the lot around 8:15 a.m. Buses will return to the parking lot at the conclusion of the service, starting around noon. Bus service will pause during the procession.
Memorial service viewing will also be available on the YouTube page for KSTP-TV, Channel 5.
After the service, an honors ceremony will be held outside the school, where law enforcement officers will fall into formation and military jets will conduct a flyover, according to MPD.
"Thousands of police officers from across the state, region and nation are expected to join family and friends for the memorial service," the announcement from MPD read.
Shortly after 2 p.m., Mitchell's body will be escorted in a procession from the high school at 9800 Fernbrook Lane N. to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the organizers said.
The procession route of more than 30 miles, starting in the city the Mitchell called home in the Twin Cities, is largely along two major Twin Cities freeways, which will allow viewing from various overpasses. It runs south along Interstate 494, then heads east on Hwy. 62 before arriving at the airport.
Organizers declined Monday afternoon to explain what happens after the procession reaches the airport. However, Mitchell was raised and lived most of his life in Connecticut, where he still has family.
Along with Mitchell, three other people were killed in back-to-back shootings in a two-block stretch of S. Blaisdell Avenue late in the afternoon of May 30.
Among the dead is Mustafa Ahmed Mohamed, 35, of Eden Prairie, who state investigators say shot Mitchell at close range in the 2100 block of Blaisdell street after the officer asked him whether he needed help.
Surviving their wounds outside were: Alexander Hage, 38, of Minneapolis, who happened to be driving in the area and was critically injured; police officer Luke Kittock, one of two officers who killed Mohamed, who was hospitalized and later released; and a firefighter whose identity has yet to be disclosed and did not require hospitalization.
Mitchell and other officers were sent to the area on a report of a shooting in an apartment in the 2200 block of Blaisdell that resulted in the killing of two men: Mohamed Bashir Aden, 36, of Columbia Heights, and Osman Said Jimale, 32, of Minneapolis.
A statement issued early the next morning by police pointed to Mohamed as the gunman who killed Aden and Jimale, explaining they "received a call of two people shot inside an apartment. ... Police officers from MPD's Fifth Precinct responded, and the suspected shooter opened fire on the officers."
Along with investigating the gunfire outside that killed Mitchell and Mohamed, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is also leading the inquiry into the shooting in the apartment.