Brooklyn Park

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced two more adults have been charged for their alleged roles in the death of 23-year-old Zaria McKeever, who was fatally shot in her Brooklyn Park apartment late last year.

A pilot program launched in Brooklyn Park is sending social workers and paramedics, sometimes working in conjunction with police officers, to handle non-violent mental health 911 calls. So far, officials are saying the program has been a success and getting praise from the city's police chief.

Brooklyn Park on Wednesday, March 22, discussed its newly implemented mental health alternative response team. The team is comprised of a Hennepin County social worker and a North EMS community paramedic. It's the first-of-its kind team that's being dispatched to a variety of mental health calls in the community, and provides an alternative to a police response in certain situations.

Many people living at Brooklyn Park’s Huntington Place apartments say the affordable housing there is the only place they could find to call home. But for some time now they’ve felt HP’s property manager has taken advantage of the situation to treat them unfairly.

After objections from the victim's family, a judge signed off on Wednesday on a plea deal that could allow one of two teens accused of murdering a Brooklyn Park woman to serve just two years in a juvenile correctional facility.

On Sunday, Zaria McKeever’s supporters and family called on a Hennepin County judge to reject a plea deal for two teens charged with killing their 23-year-old daughter at a Brooklyn Park apartment. The family says their victim rights have been violated, accusing newly elected Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty of "prosecutorial misconduct."

Surveillance video from a Brooklyn Park Caribou Coffee shows a suspect, who police allege is a convicted arsonist, trashing the establishment on Feb. 28. Jack Douglas Heinrich, 33, has since been charged with third-degree burglary and first-degree damage to property in connection to the incident.

The state’s top 48 high school and middle school robotics teams will face off in St. Paul this weekend for the FIRST Tech Challenge. The event begins Friday night at Roy Wilkins Auditorium and continues through Saturday. It is free and open to the public. At the start of the school year, the teams received this year’s challenge and designed a robot from scratch, even fabricating the parts on 3D printers. The top three teams will head to the World Championships in Houston. FOX 9 had a chance to check out the two teams from Maranatha Christian Academy in Booklyn Park who will compete this weekend.