KINGFIELD — Funeral services were held Sept. 18 for the Kingfield man killed
during a late-night bicycle ride earlier this month.
The death of Mark Loesch, 41, was ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County
Medical Examiner’s Office. The cause of death was multiple blunt-force head
impacts, the office reported.
A husband and father of four, Loesch left his Wentworth Avenue home on a
bicycle sometime after 10 p.m. Sept. 12 and never returned. He was found lying
in a yard on the 3700 block of Elliot Avenue South just before 7 a.m. the next
day.
Minneapolis police said Loesch was the city’s 35th homicide victim this year.
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Events planned in response to homicide
UPDATED September 18, 2007, 2:24pm
KINGFIELD — A memorial walk and community safety forum are planned in response
to the apparent murder of a Kingfield man found dead Sept. 13 in South
Minneapolis.
Mark Loesch will be remembered with a memorial walk and bicycle ride Wednesday,
starting at 6:30 p.m. in Martin Luther King Park, 4055 Nicollet Ave. S.
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