A 36-year-old man is dead and a 26-year-old man is in custody in Duluth after a shooting in the city's hillside neighbourhoods in the early hours of Sunday, November 1, 2026. Duluth police responded to a shooting in the 200 block of East Sixth Street at 2:45 a.m., the Duluth Police Department said in a statement carried by KDAL radio on Monday.
Source: KDAL (Duluth Police Department statement)
Officers found a 36-year-old man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died of his injuries. On Monday, police publicly identified the man who was killed as Roshadie Suggs, 36.
Source: KDAL (Duluth Police Department statement)
The shooting was also reported independently on Sunday by Duluth television station WDIO and Minneapolis–St. Paul station KARE, both of which reported a man killed in an overnight shooting on East Sixth Street and an arrest following it — reporting that matches the timeline police later set out in their own statement.
Source: WDIO / KARE reporting via US Event Monitor
Known to each other, and an argument first, police say
According to the police statement, the initial information gathered by investigators showed that the two males knew each other, and that an argument between them led to the shooting. Police have not described what the argument was about, and no further account of the moments before the gunfire has been released.
Source: KDAL (Duluth Police Department statement)
A short time after officers responded, a 26-year-old man was arrested on pending charges of second-degree homicide, police said. The police statement carried by KDAL does not publicly name the arrested man, and this report does not name him either: a name that has circulated in a single local video report has not been confirmed by the Duluth Police Department.
Source: KDAL (Duluth Police Department statement)
An arrest on pending charges is a police action, not a court verdict. In Minnesota, the county attorney's office reviews the police file and decides what formal charge, if any, is filed in a criminal complaint. The arrested man is presumed innocent unless and until a charge is proven in court, and the exact wording of any formal charge will be set by prosecutors, not by the arrest announcement.
Where this happened
East Sixth Street runs through the residential hillside above downtown Duluth, the St. Louis County seat and Minnesota's port city on the western tip of Lake Superior. The 200 block sits in the city's older hillside neighbourhoods, a few streets above the downtown core — the kind of quiet residential block where a 2:45 a.m. shooting draws an immediate and heavy police response.
Duluth, a city of roughly 86,000 people, is the largest city in northeastern Minnesota and a working Great Lakes port. Serious gun violence there is far less frequent than in the state's Twin Cities metro, which is part of why a fatal shooting between two men who knew each other, on a residential street, has drawn attention across the Northland since Sunday morning.
What happens next
The investigation into the shooting continues, the Duluth Police Department said, and detectives are still working to establish the full sequence of events that led to Suggs's death. The next public step in the case will be the charging decision: if the St. Louis County Attorney's Office files a criminal complaint, the arrested man will be formally charged and make a first appearance in court, where the complaint will set out the evidence police say they have gathered. Until then, what is established is narrow and should be stated plainly — two men who knew each other argued, one of them was shot and died, and the other is in custody awaiting a prosecutor's decision.