By Louis Krauss
Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis police officer was fired earlier this year after she tipped off her brother who was suspected in a shooting at an apartment building, according to newly released disciplinary records.
Chanica Hall, an officer who joined the Minneapolis Police Department in 2023, was terminated in April following a monthslong Internal Affairs investigation, according to a department memo signed by then-Chief Brian O’Hara.
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“Officer Hall’s conduct is inexcusable, and the loss of trust caused by her actions is irreparable,” O’Hara wrote in the termination letter. “Her conduct cannot and will not be tolerated.”
Hall was eating in the Fourth Precinct’s roll call room on Sept. 18, 2025 when she saw a confidential department bulletin seeking help identifying a shooting suspect. The man had shot another man in the stomach inside the elevator of the Laker apartment complex in northeast Minneapolis four days earlier, charges say.
The bulletin included security camera images of the suspect and his face, information about the vehicle that picked him up and a warning that the gun had not been recovered.
Hall photographed the bulletin with her personal phone and sent it to her brother just before 2 a.m. the next morning, without telling the investigator that the suspect might be him or that she communicated with him after seeing the security images, the memo alleges. The man was arrested about seven weeks later, and Hall’s warning “likely” caused some delay in the investigation and arrest, the department found.
Hall later told the department that the images of the man “resembled” her brother but at the time “didn’t know if it was him or not.” Hall also claimed she believed the notices were publicly available, though the department noted the daily information briefing website states “law enforcement sensitive” and “for official use only.”
At one point, Hall argued her “intent was to tell him to turn himself in,” and that she thought she was “helping the whole situation if that was him because there’s no name” attached to the photos at that time.
A person familiar with the investigation identified Hall’s brother as Jeffrey Cardell Rogers Jr ., 45. Court records name Hall as a witness in Rogers’ pending criminal case for first- and second-degree assault.
Calls to phone numbers associated with Hall were not immediately returned on Tuesday. An attorney for Rogers did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
On the same day she photographed the internal bulletin, Hall called her brother for a little over a minute and then sent a string of texts minutes later, the memo says.
“I need to know ASAP you got me worried,” the brother texted.
“Should be,” Hall responded.
During the exchange the brother unsent one of his messages, the memo says.
The two had a FaceTime video call for over an hour just before 2 a.m. , during which she allegedly sent her brother the photo of the internal notification.
Hall later admitted in a department interview that she photographed and sent the confidential information.
Hall did not disclose Rogers as a family member as required by the police department when she was first hired in 2023, the memo alleges.
Since then, she has been the subject of three misconduct complaints, according to the city’s dashboard. One was closed without discipline, one remains open and the third resulted in her termination.
In the disciplinary case, first reported by Fox 9, O’Hara agreed with the review panel’s findings that Hall had five violations of department policies, including breaking confidential records rules and interference with an investigation due to conflict of interest.
Hall’s peace officer license is now listed as inactive on the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board website.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigated Hall, and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office considered pursuing an “aiding an offender” or “obstruction of legal process” charge but ultimately declined, the memo says.
“Insufficient evidence” existed to prove those felony charges, according to office spokesman Daniel Borgertpoepping.
“While Ms. Hall’s conduct led to her termination, there is a more rigorous statutory test when analyzing potential felony charges,” he told the Minnesota Star Tribune .
In the shooting that’s mentioned in Hall’s firing, police responded around 8 p.m. to the apartment building in the 2500 block of 2nd Street Northeast .
Officers found a victim with a gunshot to the abdomen. The victim described being in the elevator when a man wearing a mask pointed a handgun at him and demanded money, charges say.
He told Rogers he didn’t have anything and tried to run past him, during which Rogers allegedly shot the victim.
The shooter fled the building, and the victim was taken to a hospital for lifesaving surgery.
Officers found a silver 9mm projectile a few feet from the bullet casing.
On the night of the shooting, a “resident and his invited guests got into an altercation, resulting in one of them being shot,” according to an email sent by building management to residents of the Laker.
The location data from Rogers’ cell phone placed him at the scene of the shooting, the charges say, and investigators arrested him at a home on Nov. 6.
Officers also located a 9mm firearm at the home.
Rogers was released from Hennepin County Jail in December after posting a $60,000 bond, and given conditions including that he cannot contact the victim. His jury trial is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2027.
Liz Sawyer of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story.
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