
SWAT Returns Fire, Killing Armed Man in West St. Paul Standoff
A man wanted on felony warrants was fatally shot by South Metro SWAT officers Thursday evening after an hours-long standoff at a home in West Saint Paul.
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Officers quickly located the person, who was carrying a BB gun. Authorities confirmed he is not part of the Stillwater school community and was arrested at the scene.
Abigail Michelle Faust, 24, is charged in Washington County with one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly engaging in sexual penetration with a 15-year-old boy between Dec. 2024 and Aug. 2025.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the collision happened just after 1 a.m. on Highway 19 near 441st Avenue in Dryden Township.
Officers found the body in a pond within the gravel mining area. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol assisted Maple Grove Police in recovering the person from the water.
The collision happened just after 10:20 p.m. on Highway 51, also known as Snelling Avenue North, at Garden Avenue when a northbound Yamaha motorcycle struck a Volkswagen Touareg that was turning east onto Garden Avenue.
Authorities allege the group cycled women through apartments and hotels, charged clients $400 per hour, and funneled profits to organizers in multiple states.
Police said staff locked doors to the church before Mass began, which likely prevented a worse outcome, and that the shooter tried to barricade one doorway from the outside. Officials said the guns used were purchased legally.
The incident began just after 11 a.m. when Saint Paul police located a motorcycle connected to the man outside a residence on the 1200 block of Ottawa Avenue.
Police say the shooting began shortly after 8:15 a.m. while students from the adjacent Annunciation School, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade, were gathered for their weekly Wednesday service.
According to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, officers from the First Precinct responded at 2:08 a.m. to reports of gunfire on the 800 block of Hennepin Avenue.
Police said the shooting occurred shortly before 1:30 p.m. after ShotSpotter detected about 30 rounds fired near 29th Street East and Clinton Avenue.
Police said officers were called around 8:30 p.m. to the area of York Avenue East and Greenbrier Street where gunfire had been reported.
Prosecutors charged 32-year-old Cody John Schwendeman with first-degree aggravated robbery for the June 28 incident at the Chipotle located at 2600 Hennepin Avenue.
Julia Renee Stolfa has been charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, intentional discharge of a firearm that endangers safety, first-degree criminal damage to property and reckless discharge of a firearm.
Dameon Markese Collins, 24, pleaded guilty in June 2025 to second-degree intentional murder and admitted to firing 23 shots at Woodard on June 28, 2024.
Mankato Public Safety said crews were dispatched around 2 a.m. to 233 1/2 Bradley Street on a report of a residential structure fire with flames showing from the upstairs unit of the duplex.
Officers were dispatched just before 2:45 a.m. to Glenwood Avenue and Meander Road after reports that a driver had struck both a fire hydrant and a tree.
Officers responded and found an adult male bicyclist and an adult male pedestrian, both with potentially life-threatening injuries. They were treated at the scene before being taken by ambulance to Hennepin Healthcare.
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