Birdell Beatrice Beeks, a 58-year-old Black woman from Minneapolis, was killed on May 26, 2016, in a burst of gunfire that turned an ordinary drive through north Minneapolis into a nightmare. She was sitting in her minivan with her teenage granddaughter near 21st Avenue North and Penn Avenue North when bullets meant for someone else tore through the intersection. Accounts of the case describe her as a beloved grandmother and a nurse who was widely known in the community, a woman remembered for h
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