St. Paul police officers shot a person on Monday night just before 8 p.m. near Snelling and University avenues.
The person was taken to Regions Hospital. Information wasn’t immediately available about the person’s condition.
No officers were injured in the incident.
Initial emergency radio dispatches indicated that officers responded to reports of gunshots. Police at the scene relayed there was a male walking in the area and that he had a gun to his own head. After some time, an officer called for medics to come into the area.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Monday night that they were responding to investigate.
Metro Transit announced on social media at 8:04 p.m. that Green Line service had been blocked on University Avenue and Snelling Avenue due to police activity.
— Mara Gottfried
St. Paul
Police seek driver in fatal hit-and-run
An 83-year-old pedestrian died after a hit-and-run crash near St. Paul’s Lake Phalen and police asked for the public’s help Monday to find the driver.
Officers were called just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, after a motorist came upon a man lying unconscious in the road near Arlington Avenue and McAfee Street. St. Paul Fire medics took John Bidon to Regions Hospital, where he died that night, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Bidon died from injuries consistent with being struck by a vehicle, Ernster said.
Bidon lived near the intersection where he was found.
“St. Paul, we need your help bringing justice to this case for John’s family,” police posted on social media Monday.
They’re asking anyone with information to call Sgt. Jason Neubrand at 651-266-5722.
— Mara Gottfried
SARTELL
Mobile home park sued over utilities, sewage
Four residents of Sartell Manufactured Home Park filed a class action lawsuit against the park’s owners on Oct. 22, according to a media release from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and Minneapolis-based law firm Robins Kaplan LLP.
The residents’ suit lists allegations including raw sewage exposure, utility overcharges and the enforcement of invalid leases, according to the release.
The case also alleges the defendants:
— Knowingly operated compromised water and sewage systems that cause human excrement and other sewage to back up into residents’ homes and leak onto rented lots and community spaces.
— Installed utility meters under each home with the stated purpose of charging each resident for the utilities that they use, but the meters charge residents for inaccurate utility use.
— Falsely informed Sartell Manufactured Home Park residents that state law required them to re-sign their leases under duress and threat of eviction. Sartell Manufactured Home Park did not respond to a request for comment.
— Forum News Services
DETROIT LAKES
Man killed in Angola doing mission work
A missionary from Detroit Lakes was killed in Angola, Africa, on Friday, according to a notice from Lakes Area Vineyard Lead Pastor Troy Easton.
The notice, addressed to the Lakes Area Vineyard congregation, states that Beau Shroyer was killed in an act of violence while doing mission work and that details about the incident remain unknown at this time.
In 2021, he, his wife and their five children moved to Africa to become missionaries and have been there since.
— Forum News Services