A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Monday night near the Federal Reserve building in downtown Minneapolis, police said.

Officers responded to a shooting just after 9 p.m. near the Federal Reserve Bank building on Hennepin Avenue at N. 1st Street and found the teen had been shot.

A group of teens had been loitering in the area, and at some point a fight broke out, police said.

One of the teens pulled out a gun and shot the boy, police said.

"This is a terrible tragedy," Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said in a statement. "When teenagers have access to guns, conflicts can turn deadly. One young life is lost, and others are forever changed. It's heartbreaking."

O'Hara added that the boy who died at a hospital had been the victim of a shooting in the past and recently was a suspect in another.

No arrests have been made.

The boy's death marked the eighth homicide in Minneapolis in the past week, including a shooting in which four people were killed in a shooting police said was gang-related.

The city has not seen such a run of homicides in three years, when eight people were killed in late April 2022, according to a Star Tribune database.