1 dead, 1 seriously hurt in Minneapolis shooting

Police investigate along 17th Avenue South in Minneapolis after two people were shot. (FOX 9)

A shooting Wednesday night in Minneapolis has left one man dead and a woman seriously hurt.

Police responded around 8:30 p.m. for the sounds of shots fired inside an apartment building along 17th Avenue South at East 24th Street near East Phillips Park.

At the scene, officers say they found a man and a woman who had been shot. Officers say the man was pronounced dead at the scene while the woman was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

It's not clear what, if any, relationship there is between the two people who were shot.

UPDATE: The Hennepin County Medical Examiner identified the man killed in this shooting as Nate Dwight Banks, age 34 of Detroit Lakes, Minn. His cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds.

The circumstances of the shooting are not yet known.