Shooting

NEW HOPE, Minn. -- As a 68-year-old gunman shot at a group of police officers outside New Hope's city council chambers, the people inside the room had a cool presence keeping order in former cop John Elder. "Get down and stay down," Elder said, his words captured on a cable-access...

NEW HOPE, Minn. -- Two police officers were injured by a gunman outside a New Hope City Council meeting on Monday night. The gunman was fatally shot by police, authorities said. The incident happened outside the council chambers after two new officers were sworn in. The new officers,...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- A Cass Lake man who shot a White Earth man in the leg in September was sentenced this week in Beltrami County District Court for felony assault and possession of an assault weapon. Dwight Thomas Jones, 38, was sentenced to 60 months in the Minnesota Correctional...

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. -- Authorities in the Thief River Falls region are seeking the public's help in their investigation of the weekend shooting deaths of two horses and critical injury to another on a farm near the far northwestern Minnesota community. The incident occurred...

BRAINERD, Minn. -- Two Brainerd men arrested following a shooting Sunday night at an apartment in Brainerd were arraigned on four felony counts each Tuesday in Crow Wing District Court. Tyler Allan Cronquist, 23, was charged with second-degree murder with intent but not premeditation;...

A woman was shot and killed at a Walmart store in northern Idaho on Tuesday and local media reported that the gun went off when her toddler pulled a handgun from her purse and discharged it accidentally. Lieutenant Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The officers that fatally shot a Washington student who brandished a weapon after a high-speed chase on a northern Twin Cities freeway have been identified. Hennepin County Sheriff's deputy Matthew Hagen and Brooklyn Center officer Alan Salvosa are on administrative...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. -- The man fatally shot by police early Wednesday after reportedly fleeing the scene of a homicide and leading officers on a high-speed chase across the north metro has been identified as a high school senior from Washington state. Johnathon Dean Mar, 18, of...

BEMIDJI -- A Cass Lake man charged with felony assault and possession of an assault weapon has pleaded guilty in Beltrami County District Court. Dwight Thomas Jones, 38, is charged with one count of second-degree assault and one count of possession of a pistol/assault weapon for...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. -- Authorities are investigating a homicide at a Maple Grove rest stop early Wednesday that led to a police chase with authorities fatally shooting an armed suspect after the man crashed on Interstate 694 in Shoreview. The incident began with police dispatched...

DULUTH, Minn. -- A Duluth police officer was justified in shooting a knife-wielding man who had attempted suicide and barricaded himself inside a garage at a residence this summer, St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin said Tuesday. Rubin determined that officer Marc Johnson was...

LUVERNE — Details regarding the officer-involved shooting that occurred Thursday night during a high-speed chase encompassing two southwest Minnesota counties were released Monday. The Rock County Sheriff’s Office assisted the Adrian Police Department in the chase, which ended...