College-bound teenager Tim Jackson was fatally stabbed early Saturday in south Minneapolis, a family friend said, bringing a bloody end to the dreams of a proud American Indian.
The teenager was found with wounds about 1:40 a.m. after police were called to E. 28th Street and Hiawatha Avenue S. on a report of a robbery, police said.
No suspects have been arrested, and police are asking citizens to step forward with information. Police have yet to connect the robbery with the killing.
Jackson, a Minneapolis South High School senior, "had just found out that he had gotten in" to Haskell Indian Nations University, a national center for Indian education, research and cultural preservation in Lawrence, Kan. "It's a big deal when one of us gets out," Stacie Mooney said.
"He enjoyed a lot of different things, especially around his culture," said Mooney, who at times over the years would care for Jackson, a resident of the Little Earth of United Community in Minneapolis. "Being an Indian meant a lot to him."
"He Sun Danced; he was pierced," she said. "Every year they have a canoe race at Cass Lake, and he's always participated in that."
Jackson was taken by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died.
While the county medical examiner has yet to release any information about the death, Mooney said Jackson was stabbed numerous times.