Four north suburban teenagers have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man earlier this month in Ramsey, authorities said Tuesday.

On Tuesday, law enforcement agencies including the Ramsey Police Department, Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, Coon Rapids Police Department, Anoka County SWAT and Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office made the arrests in connection with the March 2 slaying of Diamond Eddie Manly of Brooklyn Park.

According to the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, Ramsey police were dispatched on March 2 to the 14600 block of Snowy Owl Street Northwest on an 8:30 a.m. report of a person slumped over in a motor vehicle. Police found the driver, identified as Manly, dead of an apparent gunshot wound.

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said a 17-year-old from Shoreview, a 17-year-old from Ramsey, a 16-year-old from Shoreview and a 15-year-old from Coon Rapids were all taken into custody.

The four have not yet been charged and their identity and sex were not immediately released. No further details about the homicide were disclosed Tuesday.

— Kristi Miller

Motorist identified in fatal I-35E crash

Authorities have identified a Burnsville motorist who was killed in a single-vehicle crash last weekend on Interstate 35E.

Joseph Ferdinand Bluemke, 68, was killed at 9:41 a.m. Sunday on northbound I-35E at Dakota County Road 11 in Burnsville when the Volvo S60 he was driving left the roadway, went into the ditch and hit a sign before coming to rest on County Road 11, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

Bluemke was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which remains under investigation. The State Patrol did report that weather and alcohol weren’t factors.

— Kristi Miller

Volunteers sought for Day of Service

Volunteers will have a chance to assemble snack packs for children, send greeting cards to senior citizens and make hypoglycemia kits for people who have diabetes during next month’s Community Day of Service in Inver Grove Heights.

The free event, which will be held from 10 a.m. to noon April 5 at the Inver Grove Heights Community Center, features a variety of hands-on service projects “that will make a meaningful impact on the community,” organizers say.

Community Day of Service is hosted by the Lions Clubs of Cottage Grove, Hastings Rivertown, South St. Paul, St. Paul Park, Newport and Woodbury, along with the South St. Paul Southwest Lioness Lions Club.

Other activities include making fleece blankets for Sleep in Heavenly Peace, a local nonprofit organiza

tion that builds and delivers beds to kids who don’t have a bed of their own, and and creating eco-friendly seed pots.

In addition, children can receive free vision screenings during the event, organizers say.

To register, go to pipr.es/WOWmFAn.

— Mary Divine

Kwik Trip clerk slain; suspect arrested

A clerk at a Mankato convenience store was fatally stabbed early Tuesday morning and a suspect has been arrested.

Dennis Vosika, 34, of Mankato, was found lying unresponsive on the floor when police officers, responding to a disturbance at the store, arrived at the Kwik Trip shortly after 3 a.m. Vosika died of multiple stab wounds at the Mankato hospital, authorities said.

Police identified the suspect by reviewing surveillance footage and arrested 28-year-old Michael Miller at his residence without incident at around 6 a.m. Police said Miller was a known customer at the store at 1549 Madison Ave. and easily identified.

Police were planning to

issue a shelter-in-place order for a two-block radius around the 400 block of Commodore Drive, which is a few blocks from the Kwik Trip. However, the shelter order wasn’t put in place as the suspect was quickly arrested.

Scott Zietlow, the CEO of the La Crosse, Wis.-based Kwik Trip, said in a statement: “This is a devastating loss for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”

Zietlow said the company was working with law enforcement to understand what happened.

— Free Press of Mankato