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Suspects in Custody After Shots Fired at Golden Valley Officer During Pursuit

Two suspects are in custody and awaiting charges after a pursuit and shots being fired at a Golden Valley police officer on Wednesday night. Golden Valley officers were called to the area near 37th Avenue North & Major Avenue North after a citizen reported a suspicious vehicle. When officers located the suspicious vehicle, one suspect fled on foot while firing gunshots toward an officer.

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Former Officer Kim Potter Gets 2 Years for Manslaughter in Daunte Wright Death

Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter has been sentenced to 24 months in prison by Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu for fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last spring. Two-thirds of Potter’s sentence must be served in prison, while one-third can be served on conditional release. She may be eligible for release in April 2023.

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Woman Killed in Saint Paul Shooting in Payne-Phalen Neighborhood

Saint Paul police are investigating after a woman in her 30s was killed in a shooting at the intersection of Payne Avenue and Cook Avenue in Saint Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood on Wednesday evening. Police were called to the intersection around 6:45 p.m. on a report of a person unconscious in a vehicle. According to scanner traffic, emergency crews arrived and found a vehicle in the middle of the intersection with a bullet hole in it, and a woman inside bleeding from the neck.

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Kidnapping Suspect Nabbed in Burnsville After Hours-Long Operation, Pursuit

Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies arrested a kidnapping suspect and found the female victim safe after a long-running tracking operation spanning more than a day and multiple metro locations. The suspect, Derrick Jonathan Fasig, 27, fled from a 2005 Chevy Tahoe after ditching it near the Shell station at 12340 Nicollet Ave. shortly after 4:30 p.m.

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Suspect Arrested in Fridley Hammer Assault

Police have arrested a man in connection to a violent attack with a hammer in Fridley, Feb. 3, leaving the victim with unspecified injuries. The 911 call came in just before 5 a.m. from a juvenile who said they were hiding in the bathroom with a sibling, and that their father was fighting with someone and yelling “you can’t hit me with a hammer!”

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Arrest Made in Saint Paul Murder; Suspect in Warrant That Led to Amir Locke Killing

A suspect sought in connection to a January homicide in Saint Paul was arrested Monday in Winona, authorities have confirmed. The 17-year-old was the subject named in a search warrant served in downtown Minneapolis last week which ended in the police killing of 22-year-old Amir Locke, who was shot while inside a Bolero Flats apartment early Wednesday and not named on the warrant.

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Murder Charges Filed Against 2 Suspects in Shooting Outside Richfield School

Formal charges have been filed against two suspects accused in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old student earlier this week outside a Richfield school. Alfredo Rosario Solis, 19, and Fernando Valdez-Alvarez, 18, were arrested by police later the same day and are now charged with 2nd-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the shooting.

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1 Dead in Shooting on Saint Paul's West Side

Saint Paul police have confirmed their sixth homicide investigation of the year after a man was fatally shot late Tuesday around 10:15 p.m., on the 700 block of Winslow Ave., in the city’s West Side neighborhood. Police were dispatched after multiple 911 callers reported that shots had been fired in a residential area. When squads arrived, they found an adult male in his 20s who had been shot.

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Student Killed, Another Critical After Shooting Outside Richfield School

One student died and another was critically injured after a shooting outside a Richfield school shortly after noon on Tuesday. The suspects fled the scene immediately after and have not yet been apprehended. Richfield police confirm they were dispatched at 12:07 p.m. to South Education Center, 7450 Penn Ave. S., where they found two students who were reportedly shot while on a sidewalk near the front entrance of the school.

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Men Sentenced for 'Harmless Fun' After 2 Pipe Bombs Detonated in Washington Co.

Two men who pled guilty to making and detonating homemade explosive devices in November of 2020 in Washington County each received 30-day jail sentences and two years of probation. 30-year-old Nicolas Thole of Woodbury and 41-year-old Seth Slaikeu of Afton were also fined $387.00 each. Thole and Slaikeu were also given a stay of imposition, meaning their felony convictions will be reduced to misdemeanors upon successful completion of their probation.

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Man Charged with Murder After Wife Found Beaten, Wrapped in Comforter

Charges filed Monday in the murder of a 66-year-old Saint Paul woman detail the gruesome scene found by investigators inside a home on the 1400 block of Dale St. N. Early Sunday, Jan. 23, officers were called to the home and found Arvid Harry Johnson, 66, smoking a cigarette at the kitchen table, according to a criminal complaint. They found his wife Linda M. Johnson, 66, on the floor in a bedroom of the home, with obvious trauma to her face and head.

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Man Dead After Shooting in Saint Paul's Frogtown Neighborhood

A 911 call around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday of a possible home invasion and shots fired led to St. Paul’s third homicide in 2022. According to initial dispatch audio, a 911 caller reported that a male had entered their home on the 300 block of Blair Avenue and held a gun to the head of their cousin. The suspect was reportedly still on the scene at the time of the call.

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