Liz Sawyer is a journalist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and writes for the Star Tribune. With a focus on local news, Liz covers a range of topics including crime, politics, and social issues. Her work has been featured in various publications and she has a reputation for delivering accurate and impactful reporting.
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Liz Sawyer focuses primarily on crime, law enforcement, and government & politics in the local context of Minneapolis and Minnesota. She frequently covers evolving stories and breaking news related to these topics.
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Johnny Birzavi Sanchez Sanchez was shot on the Southside in late July, while on a motorcycle.
By: Jessie Van Berkel, Liz Sawyer
Youth ruled incompetent to stand trial cannot legally be housed in juvenile detention centers, but they frequently can't find beds at residential treatment facilities.
The child later died at HCMC. Police have not said whether they believe the shooting was accidental or intentional.
By: Liz Sawyer
Police say no one is injured and are asking citizens to avoid the scene until the situation is resolved.
By: Liz Sawyer
SWAT negotiators tried to communicate with John H. Sawchak for hours and and eventually breached his home on Sunday night, shortly after Chief Brian O’Hara admitted to failing his victim.
By: Paul Walsh, Liz Sawyer
More than a decade before allegedly shooting and critically wounding Davis Moturi, records show Sawchak repeatedly harassed tenants and ran a Black family out of their home.
By: Karen Zamora, Mary Lynn Smith, Liz Sawyer
MINNEAPOLIS - Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old girl missing since her parents were shot to death in their Barron, Wis., home three months ago, was found
By: Liz Sawyer
A consent decree is one of the federal government's most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be violating the U.S. Constitution.
By: Liz Sawyer
Activists continue to call for Chief Brian O'Hara's firing over the department's handling of a violent neighbor dispute. But O'Hara says he is committed to fulfilling his three-year term and has ‘no intention of turning my back' on the police force.
By: Liz Sawyer
His Facebook group True North Minneapolis was a hub of community discourse.
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