A man was shot in the face in a parking lot near 754 Concordia Ave. in St. Paul early Saturday but is expected to survive, authorities said.

At about 4:30 a.m., officers were called to the site on a report of several shots being fired, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul Police Department spokesman.

Officers arrived and located several bullet casings and two vehicles struck by gun fire.

While processing the scene, officers were told that a male who had been shot in the face arrived in a personal vehicle at Regions Hospital, Ernster said.

The victim is expected to survive, according to hospital staff.

No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing, Ernster said.

A St. Paul man was found dead late Saturday after witnesses say he fell from a boat on Peltier Lake in Lino Lakes.

Rescuers were called to the lake about 6:40 p.m. after it was reported that a man had fallen into the water and did not resurface. The Anoka County sheriff’s office later identified the boater as Rodney Pierre Callendar Sr., 64, of St. Paul.

Emergency responders soon found Callendar’s boat, but he was nowhere to be seen. The Anoka County sheriff’s office marine unit found Callender underwater about 11 p.m.

Callendar was the only one on the boat, witnesses said.

The sheriff’s office and Lino Lakes police are investigating.

Three people were killed in a crash early Sunday in Minneapolis caused by the driver of a stolen vehicle who was fleeing police, the Minnesota State Patrol said.

According to a press release, the pursuit began about 1:16 a.m. when a trooper spotted the stolen Ford Escape eastbound near the Interstate 94 tunnel. The trooper, who was waiting for backup, followed the vehicle without lights or siren as the driver exited Minnesota 55 and turned southbound on Cedar Avenue, according to the State Patrol. Two other troopers attempted to stop the driver at the bottom of the exit ramp onto Cedar, but the driver continued.

A lieutenant terminated the chase four blocks later when a State Patrol helicopter arrived.

The driver of the Escape then crashed into a 2006 Dodge Ram in the opposite lanes at East 35th Street and Cedar near Matt’s Bar & Grill. The three adults in that vehicle died. They were identified as Kenneth William Carpentier, 64, of Bullhead City, Ariz.; Sheryl Lynn Carpentier, 65, also of Bullhead City; and Kimberly Marie Gunderson, 48, of Minneapolis.

The driver of the Escape, Dayquan Jayru Hodge, 18, of Minneapolis, suffered life-threatening injuries and is in police custody at Hennepin County Medical Center. Four passengers — a 16-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy — in the Escape were injured and taken to HCMC. The extent of their injuries was not released Sunday.

The State Patrol is investigating. In its report, it noted that out of the nine people involved in the crash, only the two drivers had seatbelts on.

Community meetings about Level 3 predatory offenders have become somewhat commonplace in St. Paul, but an upcoming meeting — involving 12 offenders — has drawn attention and ire from some.

One woman asked on Facebook: Why are “we even housing predators (and) giving them a chance to re-offend”?

Another suggested the men should be put on an island together, away from children.

Others mused on the intersection of civil rights and protection of society, and proposed that people attend the community meeting to find out more.

While 12 predatory offenders with a Level 3 classification are the subject of Wednesday’s meeting, not all are new to St. Paul, according to a Minnesota Department of Corrections official.

Six already lived in St. Paul and are now at new addresses. Three moved to the city after being released from prison. And three came to St. Paul from other cities.

The 12 men are living in various St. Paul neighborhoods, with eight in areas of the East Side.

Diane Neal, executive director of Project Pathfinder, says she never wants to minimize people’s fears, but she also wants them to know the realities of sex crimes: Most happen within families, and sex offenders have low rates of recidivism.

The St. Paul-based nonprofit provides sex offender treatment programs and works on community education, with the goal of preventing sexual assault from happening in the first place.

Neal encourages people who attend community notification meetings to ask questions, such as: What was the person’s original offense and when did it occur? Have they received treatment?

“Everybody should feel safe, so ask questions,” Neal said.

55 LEVEL 3 OFFENDERS LIVING IN ST. PAUL

The numbers of Level 3 offenders in St. Paul tend to ebb and flow, said St. Paul officer Jeremy Doverspike, who works in the department’s predatory offender registry unit.

“It’s hit-and-miss on when offenders move, so there’s no reason for it,” he said. “… It’s nothing to do with us inviting them in or telling them where to go. They’re moving on their own and we have to notify the public.”

Across Minnesota, there are 396 Level 3 predatory offenders living in communities, according to Mark Bliven, director of risk assessment/community notification with the state corrections department.

Of those, 55 reside in St. Paul, compared with 50 in July 2017.

People classified as a Level 3 offender have “a higher number of risk factors associated with them,” Bliven said.

But that means they’re subject to more monitoring, supervision and community notification, which has “in effect reduced the likelihood of re-offense,” according to Bliven.

MOST SEXUALLY ASSAULTED JUVENILES THEY KNEW

People who attend community notification meetings can get overall information about the offense history of an individual and what block they’re living on.

An online public registry also lists information about Level 3 offenders and those released from the Minnesota Sex Offender Program.

Of the 12 men who are the subject of Wednesday’s meeting in St. Paul, eight of them sexually assaulted juveniles whom they knew; two also had sexual contact with juveniles they did not know, according to summaries of their offenses from the Minnesota Department of Corrections.

National statistics have shown that about 93 percent of sex crimes are perpetrated by someone known to the victim.

Among the other Level 3 offenders whom the St. Paul community is being notified about:

• Mark Ray Davis, 38, asked a woman he didn’t know for a ride in 1997 in Chisago County. Using a weapon and force, he sexually assaulted her; he also bound the woman, left her and stole her car, according to a DOC summary. He pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct and was sentenced to more than eight years in prison. He’s been sent back to prison for third-degree assault and violating the terms of his registration as a predatory offender.

• When Brandon Will Campbell was 16 years old, in 1996, he was accused of beating his girlfriend’s toddler son to death in Cloquet. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Campbell is required to register as a predatory offender due to a 1995 adjudication for second-degree criminal sexual conduct, according to a court document. He’s also gone back to prison for illegal possession of a pistol and violating the terms of his registration as a predatory offender.

• Larry Dale Bridgeforth, 68, has a history of criminal sexual conduct with women he didn’t know, according to a DOC summary. He approached them in a public place and used force to gain compliance. He pleaded guilty to attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in Hennepin County in 1994 and first-degree criminal sexual conduct in Ramsey County in 2000.

LOW RATES OF OFFENDING AGAIN

Law enforcement officials say the community meetings aren’t meant to make people afraid, but to increase awareness.

The St. Paul police department has held about half-dozen Level 3 community meetings this year, with each meeting covering two to four offenders. The meetings have each drawn 10 to 20 people, Doverspike said.

“People want to know why they’re moving into their neighborhood,” he said. “… Just because there’s a Level 3 offender doesn’t mean that there’s a different level offender living in your neighborhood who you don’t know about.”

For Level 2 offenders, schools, day cares and some others within a particular geographic area are notified, but there’s not broad community notification about them or Level 1 offenders.

The sexual recidivism rate for predatory offenders is among the lowest of offenders leaving prison, Bliven said.

Recent Minnesota Department of Corrections research has shown about 2 percent of predatory offenders are convicted of another sex offense after leaving prison, according to Bliven.

Of the people Neal has worked with, she said nearly all of them “feel badly and wish they had never harmed anyone.”

“There’s a lot of different motivating factors that contribute to sex offense behaviors,” Neal said. “Community and family support are protective factors that contribute to reducing recidivism and eliminating those behaviors.”

IF YOU GO

• What: Level 3 predatory offender notification meeting regarding 12 men who moved into St. Paul or are living at new addresses.
• When: Wednesday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m.
• Where: St. Paul Police Department Western District, 389 N. Hamline Ave.

FYI

People can look up information about Level 3 offenders by name, zip code, city or county at coms.doc.state.mn.us/PublicRegistrantSearch.

Ramsey County SOS Sexual Violence Services offers free and confidential services for victims, and also general information and assistance for other people concerned about sexual violence in the community. The phone number is 651-266-1000.

Two teenagers were shot during a carjacking in Columbia Heights early Monday morning, and police said the suspects were still at large.

Officers from the Columbia Heights Police Department were dispatched to an area of 42nd Avenue and Fillmore Street Northeast at around 5:36 a.m. and found two gunshot victims — a 17-year-old boy from Maple Grove and a 16-year-old boy from Brooklyn Park.

Both victims were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center for injuries that police say were not life-threatening.

The stolen vehicle, a 2016 white Jeep Patriot with a Minnesota license plate of AWF-385, had not been recovered. Police were looking for two suspects, a male and a female. Police did not provide detailed descriptions of the two.

Columbia Heights police and the Anoka County sheriff’s office are investigating. Anyone with information can contact authorities at 763-427-1212.

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn. — A 25-year-old man is in custody in connection with the death of a 28-year-old man whose buried body was uncovered by authorities Saturday.

Jordan Jerome Dalman came to the sheriff’s office Friday afternoon and told deputies an incident happened at his home about 9 miles north of Pelican Rapids and someone died, a news release from the Otter Tail County sheriff’s office said.

On Saturday, sheriff’s detectives, special agents and forensic personnel from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension found the body of Dylan Butler with evidence of gunshot wounds at the residence off Holbrook Road, the news release said.

Butler, a former resident of Oklahoma and Colorado, had been living at Dalman’s home since May, the sheriff’s office said.

Pelican Rapids is about 30 miles south of Detroit Lakes in western Minnesota.

A corrections officer at Minnesota Correctional Facility — Oak Park Heights suffered a medical emergency and died Monday afternoon after responding to an inmate assault on another officer, Department of Corrections officials said.

Joseph Parise, 37, died at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. The cause of death was not immediately known.

Parise, who had worked for the DOC for four years, was one of several officers who responded after an inmate assaulted an officer about noon on Monday. Two responding staff were injured during the incident and evaluated and released, DOC officials said.

The prison was placed on lockdown after the assault.

After returning to his post, Parise experienced a medical emergency and was taken to Regions Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Parise “was a valued member of our corrections family,” said Sarah Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for the DOC, on Monday. “We offer our heartfelt condolences to Officer Parise’s family, friends, and all of his fellow officers. This is a very difficult day for our Oak Park Heights officers and employees, and our entire department. We are deeply saddened by today’s events.”

Support services will be available for Oak Park Heights employees and all corrections officers and staff, Fitzgerald said.

She said DOC staff is investigating the incident and will provide additional information when available.

Gov. Mark Dayton said in a Monday-night statement: “Officer Joseph Parise was a dedicated state employee, who worked hard every day to protect the safety of his colleagues and our communities. We are deeply saddened by Officer Parise’s sudden and tragic death. On behalf of all Minnesotans, I offer my heartfelt sympathies to his family, friends, and fellow Corrections Officers.”

The union representing correction officers in the state issued a statement Monday night: “We join in mourning with our correctional brothers and sisters. We grieve with the family of our AFSCME member. We offer our deepest respects to our fallen brother for his courage and his service.”

Corrections Officer Derek Magle, the vice president of AFSCME Local 915 at Oak Park Heights, said Parise was a U.S. Navy veteran who served on the OPH honor guard, and a loving husband and father. Magle described Parise as a very caring man.

“He’s always fun, charismatic, positive,” Magle said. “He always worried about other staff before he worried about himself. When you were having issues, he would reach out to try to help.”

AFSCME said it will be holding a news conference at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, at its Council 5 offices, 300 Hardman Ave. South, South St. Paul.

RECENT ASSAULTS ON PRISON OFFICERS

The attack comes a week after a corrections officer at the prison in Faribault was punched in the face by an inmate and two months after an inmate at the Stillwater prison allegedly used a prison-issued hammer and two improvised knives to kill a corrections officer.

At the maximum-security prison in Oak Park Heights, assaults against officers increased 74 percent to 66 in a 12-month period ending in June. In a single weekend in March, assaults by inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights sent 10 employees to the hospital — more injuries than in the previous five years combined.

Johnson has been charged with first-degree intentional murder and first-degree assault.

Johnson was already serving a 29-year prison term for the 2002 murder of his girlfriend, Brooke Elizabeth Thompson.

According to the criminal complaint, Johnson used a prison-issued hammer to beat and kill Gomm on the third floor of a vocational building at the prison, causing “substantial injuries to his head and face.” Johnson also used an improvised knife to twice stab Gomm in the chest, the complaint states.

Gomm was a 16-year veteran of the Department of Corrections. Thousands of corrections officers from around the U.S. and Canada came to Minnesota to attend his July 26 funeral at North Heights Lutheran Church in Arden Hills.

On Monday, Gomm family members said in a statement regarding Parise’s death: “Whenever a correctional officer passes on the job, regardless of the circumstances, we consider it a great loss to the family of correctional officers. We are hopeful those responsible will be prosecuted aggressively. Our hearts and thoughts go out to Officer Parise and his family.”

UNION: PRISONS UNDERSTAFFED

After Parise’s death, union leaders representing corrections staff called for more prison officers and changes to inmate discipline rules. They have said that state prisons are understaffed and officers are not properly equipped for the job.

Oak Park Heights’ correctional officers have set up a GoFundMe account to help his family: https://www.gofundme.com/officer-joe-parise.

Prosecutors have charged a 12-year-old boy in juvenile court in the stabbing death of his 16-year-old brother in Minnetonka.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said Monday the boy’s case will be handled in juvenile court. Because of his age, no other information will be public.

On Saturday night, Minnetonka police officers were called to an apartment  on Fairfield Road. They found a 16-year-old boy with a stab wound to his chest. He was pronounced dead at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.

The suspect was initially evaluated at a hospital, then released to his parents. Police continued investigating, then arrested him Sunday night.

Police believe the weapon was a kitchen knife. The mother and other family members were home at the time.

Police haven’t disclosed a motive except that there was some sort of altercation between the two boys.

FARGO, N.D. — A medical examiner testified Monday that he isn’t sure whether Fargo woman whose baby was cut from her womb died from blood loss or strangulation.

Dr. Victor Froloff’s called Savanna Greywind’s August 2017 death an unusual case with “two competitive causes of death.”

William Hoehn, 33, is accused of conspiracy in Greywind’s death, which drew attention to violence involving American Indian women. Hoehn’s former girlfriend, Brooke Crews, pleaded guilty earlier and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The uncertainty over an exact cause of death could be important because Hoehn, who has admitted helping cover up the crime, has denied any knowledge that Crews planned to kill Greywind and take her baby. Hoehn says he came upon a bloody scene in the bathroom of the couple’s apartment, with Crews presenting him with an infant girl and saying: “This is our baby.”

But prosecutors said in opening statements that when Crews told Hoehn she wasn’t sure if Greywind was dead, he put a rope around Greywind’s neck and tightened it.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Brad Randall, testifying for the defense, said he agreed “in large part” with Froloff’s findings. He added that it was “more than likely” that Greywind would have died from blood loss in less than 30 minutes.

Crews and Greywind had been friends, and Greywind had texted her mother shortly before she disappeared to say she was going to Crews’ apartment. After Greywind was reported missing, police searched Hoehn and Crews’ apartment three times in six days.

Crews originally told police that Greywind had given her the child. Crews later told police they had argued, saying she pushed Greywind down and knocked her out before cutting her open. Froloff testified Monday that there was no evidence of any head injuries to Greywind.

Crews is expected to testify this week.

Greywind’s body was found eight days later, wrapped in plastic and dumped in the Red River. It is still unclear how she ended up there.

Greywind’s death prompted North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna’s Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and slain Native American women . A similar bill has been introduced in the House.

The mother accused of helping her son cover up his involvement in a fatal hit-and-run collision with a bicyclist on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue last fall no longer faces criminal charges in the case.

Prosecutors opted to dismiss the charges against Abbey Hegner as a means to help secure a guilty plea from her son, the Ramsey County attorney’s office announced Monday.

Dustin Hegner Royce pleaded guilty in June to one count of criminal vehicular homicide in the death of Jose Hernandez Solano after reaching a deal with prosecutors.

“(Before) Dustin Hegner Royce’s guilty plea … there were challenges to understanding the truth of what happened,” county attorney’s office spokesman Dennis Gerhardstein said in a written statement. “We believe that our consideration of dismissing the charges against (his) mother helped us get to the truth and secure accountability for Jose Hernandez Solano and our community.”

Abbey Hegner was charged with two felony counts of evading an offender for allegedly helping her son cover his tracks after he fatally struck Hernandez Solano. At the time early on Nov. 26, her son was driving her Hyundai Santa Fe as the 52-year-old Hernandez Solano was biking home from work as a dishwasher at the nearby Brasa restaurant.

Hegner Royce said during his plea hearing that the collision took place shortly after he hurried away from a “road-rage” incident and ran a red light at Grand Avenue and West Seventh Street.

After Hernandez Solano — who was wearing a helmet and had a safety light — was knocked off his bike and lay motionless in the street, Hegner Royce fled. He drove down West Seventh to Keenan’s Bar, where his mother was working as a bartender.

Hegner left her shift and followed her son in another vehicle as the two made their way to his workplace in South St. Paul, he said in testimony at his plea hearing.

Then he left his car there and drove away with his mother.

Police have yet to locate the vehicle, and investigators spent months building the case that was outlined in charges filed against Hegner Royce and his mother in March.

They were initially arrested in December but soon released.

At the time, Hegner denied any involvement in the incident and told officers she sold her Santa Fe four days before the crash to an “unknown Mexican or Somali male,” court documents say.

She also was reportedly overheard in a recorded jailhouse phone conversation telling someone that police didn’t have any evidence in the case, particularly the suspect’s vehicle.

Hegner Royce initially told officers he had no memory of being at a Holiday gas station near the crime scene that night, despite video footage placing him there, nor could he recall going to his mother’s workplace.

He admitted during his plea hearing that he lied.

Hegner Royce was sentenced to four years in prison on Aug. 15. Two days later, prosecutors dropped the charges against his mother.

Hegner’s attorney declined to comment Monday.

Hernandez Solano died after spending 12 days unconscious.

The native of Mexico came to the United States decades ago to support his family. Before getting the job at Brasa, he spent 18 years working at Christos in St. Paul’s Union Depot before the Greek restaurant closed.

An online fundraising campaign helped to return the body of the father and grandfather to Mexico for burial.

HUDSON — Four days of trial testimony and nearly 11 hours of jury deliberation in the case of a teenager who allegedly threatened to “shoot kids” were all for naught Monday after a juror was held in contempt of court, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial.

St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Edward Vlack released all 12 jurors on Sept. 25 after learning one of them had brought in a document he had printed off the internet about the Parkland school massacre in Florida.

The mistrial leaves the case open and likely headed toward a second trial for 19-year-old Nicholas H. Cherrier, attorneys said after Monday morning’s hearing. The New Richmond man is charged with making a terrorist threat, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of three and a half years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Jurors were given the case at about 11:23 a.m. Friday and deliberated until 10:15 that night, when Vlack sent them home for the weekend with orders to resume deliberations Monday morning.

Before declaring the mistrial, Vlack called the juror in question into the courtroom where he asked the man if he had indeed brought the item into the jury room. The man, who identified himself as Juror No. 943, said he did, telling the judge he thought it was “something we could bring in” since it wasn’t directly in reference to the Cherrier case.

Law enforcement officials said the document was a print-off of the Wikipedia page for the Parkland shooting.

The mass shooting — which occurred about six weeks before Cherrier’s comment — figured prominently in the trial: Jurors watched an interrogation video of an investigator referencing it while talking with Cherrier and St. Croix County Assistant District Attorney Ed Minser used the attack in framing the context of the case during closing arguments.

Parkland, Minser said, was “something that was at the forefront of many people’s minds at the time.”

While Cherrier’s family, law enforcement officials and others watched from the gallery Monday, Vlack reminded the juror that jury instructions strictly prohibit jurors from going on the internet and doing their own research. Juror No. 943 said he discussed information from the document in front of the other jurors.

Vlack told the man he was under arrest after “finding you in contempt.” Vlack ordered the man to appear before him on Thursday; he indicated the contempt case would be a civil matter. St. Croix County District Attorney Michael Nieskes requested the costs for the jury in advance of Thursday’s hearing.

Assistant District Attorney Ed Minser, who prosecuted the Cherrier case, said the outcome was the first he’d experienced in at least 20 jury trials.

“It’s a relatively rare experience,” Nieskes added, noting he’s been involved in two such cases in his career.

He said the jury originally carried a 13th juror, but that person was excused after learning he might have had more knowledge of the case than first revealed. That left the trial without an alternate juror, though Nieskes said the likelihood that an alternate would be plucked after deep deliberations would not be advisable.

Defense attorney Mark Gherty said he had to go out for fresh air after Monday’s developments unfolded.

“I’m just extremely disappointed,” he said hours later, adding that Cherrier shared the same sentiment.

Vlack set an Oct. 11 status hearing in the case.

FINAL ARGUMENTS LAID OUT

Lawyers presented closing remarks Friday morning before jurors received the case.

Minser told the jury that the case — in which Cherrier allegedly told a co-worker at Nor-Lake that he had just bought ammunition and planned to shoot kids — was akin to yelling “bomb” on an airplane.

Minser grabbed Cherrier’s AR-15 rifle and his modified Remington shotgun — both of which had been introduced as evidence in the case — and stood before the jury clutching the guns.

“Here’s the plastic explosive and here’s the detonator that he had in his carry-on bag,” the prosecutor said, gesturing to each gun.

Gherty rejected the bomb-on-an-airplane metaphor and maintained that his client’s words were a bad joke that led to backstabbing co-workers pumping up rumors at the workplace.

“Nick Cherrier becomes the boogeyman — the imaginary figure,” said Gherty, who argued his client’s remarks were merely a bad joke.

Gherty questioned why no one at the town of Hudson plant told either Cherrier or company officials about their fears. Cherrier was “not aware he was being labeled a mass murderer in training,” Gherty told the jury.

That, he argued, gave cause for a not-guilty verdict in the case. Jury instructions include a requirement that both the speaker and the listener of the threat must be aware that the comment could cause fear or a public panic.

Minser countered that Cherrier indeed knew what was behind those words. The prosecutor said that was in reference to text exchanges with a friend where Cherrier wrote “when we shoot up the school n-gga.”

“This was no joke,” Minser told jurors. “It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t intended to be funny. It was intended to provoke a response. That response was fear.”

Gherty painted his client not as a would-be school shooter, but as a young man who was devoted to his gun hobby and the allure of the firearms. From Cherrier’s standpoint, he “bought something that looks really cool,” Gherty said.

VIDEO INTERVIEW SHOWN

Jurors were shown a recording during the trial’s second day, of Cherrier explaining to an investigator what he said that led to the eventual charge.

He was interviewed March 30 by St. Croix County sheriff’s office investigator Cary Rose.

In the recording, played Sept. 18 for the jury, Rose asks Cherrier to use his own words to describe the conversation in question.

“Something I brought up about shooting a school,” he said after struggling to recall the exchange with a co-worker at Nor-Lake Inc. in the town of Hudson.

“Did he confront you about it, or did you just …” Rose says.

“He just like said something,” Cherrier replies.

“About a school?”

“Yeah,” Cherrier says. “And then I said, like, ‘Yeah I’m gonna do that.’ And he said, ‘Oh, that’s not cool.’ And I said, ‘OK, I’m not gonna do that anymore then.’ Something like that. I honestly can’t even really remember it.”

“But there was a conversation between you and Todd about shooting up a school,” Rose said, referring to Todd Emery, the Nor-Lake employee who said Cherrier mentioned “shooting kids.”

“I guess, yeah. If he’d said that,” Cherrier responds.

Rose then asked Cherrier about his intentions — what was behind the comment.

“I have a stupid sense of humor,” Cherrier said.

He admits in the interview that while he didn’t mention any specific person or school, that he did make a reference of the like.

“I don’t know if I actually said ‘kids’ or if I said ‘school,’” Cherrier said.

The comment, made March 29, led to a chain of discussion and rumors among workers at the Nor-Lake plant, which, according to testimony given Tuesday, was eventually taken to senior management. Company officials met the next morning and eventually reported it through the sheriff’s office.

Nor-Lake Vice President of Operations Jeff Blackwell testified that he placed the call, which was “something I felt we had to do for the safety of the company.”

“In this day and age, to be honest, you can’t take chances,” he said.

Blackwell went on to describe how the incident involving Cherrier led to a lockdown at the plant, which remains in effect to this day, along with permanent key-card access security measures. He said the company hired armed, uniformed officers to patrol its town of Hudson plant and its downtown Hudson offices for at least a week after Cherrier was released from jail on bond. Nor-Lake footed the bill, he said, at a “very considerable expense.”

Rose also began his testimony — which continued into Wednesday — during the hearing. The interview he did on March 30 was meant “to find out who Nicholas Cherrier was,” Rose said.

The video begins with Sheriff Scott Knudson talking with Cherrier about everyday things — family, school, job opportunities.

“Nice chatting with you, good luck,” Knudson says as Rose arrives.

He leaves and Rose starts the formal interview, where he quickly gets into Cherrier’s work environment and it’s learned he had been disciplined once at Nor-Lake for being late and that he was likely on “thin ice” with the company.

Rose queries Cherrier about his decision to buy body armor, a purchase Cherrier admitted his brother and father frowned upon. He said there’s a “99.9 percent” chance he would never need it, but that he ordered it for protection.

“I’d rather have it if I ever were to need it,” Cherrier tells the investigator.

On the subject of guns and ammunition, of which Cherrier said he owned several, he said he shoots guns in his back yard and sparingly at a Hudson gun range.

Rose later tells Cherrier that, given recent events involving mass shootings, the allegations from Nor-Lake put law enforcement and others on edge. Asked if it concerned him, Cherrier said those events “shouldn’t be happening.”

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, Bill Cosby was led away to prison in handcuffs Tuesday at age 81 for perhaps the rest of his days, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate.

The punishment made him the first celebrity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison and completed the dizzying, late-in-life fall from grace for the comedian, TV star and breaker of racial barriers.

“It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come,” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Constand’s statement to the court, in which she said Cosby took her “beautiful, young spirit and crushed it.”

Cosby declined the opportunity to speak before the sentence came down, and afterward sat laughing and chatting with his defense team. His wife of 54 years, Camille, was not in court. Constand smiled broadly upon hearing the punishment and was hugged by others in the courtroom.

In a blistering statement, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the comic was subjected to “most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States.”

Among other things, Wyatt said all three of the psychologists who testified against Cosby were “white women who make money off of accusing black men of being sexual predators,” and he accused prosecutors of using a doctored recording of a telephone conversation between Constand’s mother and Cosby.

Cosby’s lawyers asked that he be allowed to remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction, but the judge appeared incredulous over the request and ordered him locked up immediately, saying that “he could quite possibly be a danger to the community.”

The comedian — who is legally blind and uses a cane — removed his watch, tie and jacket and walked out in a white dress shirt and red suspenders, his hands cuffed in front of him. He must serve the minimum of three years before becoming eligible for parole.

“For decades, the defendant has been able to hide his true self and hide his crimes using his fame and fortune. He’s hidden behind a character created, Dr. Cliff Huxtable,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said at a news conference, referring to Cosby’s best-known role. But “now, finally, Bill Cosby has been unmasked, and we have seen the real man as he is headed off to prison.”

Constand stood at Steele’s side but shook her head to say she had no comment.

Former model Janice Dickinson, who was among the 60 or so women who have come forward to accuse Cosby of drugging and violating them over the past five decades, looked at him in the courtroom and said: “Here’s the last laugh, pal.”

Another accuser in the courtroom, Lili Bernard, said: “There is solace, absolutely. It is his fame and his fortune and his phony philanthropy that has allowed him to get away with impunity. Maybe this will send a message to other powerful perpetrators that they will be caught and punished.”

The punishment, which also included a $25,000 fine, came at the end of a two-day hearing at which the judge declared Cosby a “sexually violent predator” — a modern-day scarlet letter that subjects him to monthly counseling for the rest of his life and requires that neighbors and schools be notified of his whereabouts.

The comic once known as America’s Dad for his role on the top-rated “Cosby Show” in the 1980s was convicted in April of violating Constand, Temple University women’s basketball administrator, at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. It was the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.

Constand testified that Cosby gave her what she thought were herbal pills to ease stress, then penetrated her with his fingers as she lay immobilized on a couch. Cosby claimed the encounter was consensual, and his lawyers branded her a “con artist” who framed the comedian to get a big payday — a $3.4 million settlement she received over a decade ago.

Five other accusers took the stand at the trial as part of an effort by prosecutors to portray him as a predator.

Cosby faced anywhere from probation to 10 years in prison. His lawyers asked for house arrest, saying Cosby is too old and vulnerable to do time in prison. Prosecutors asked for five to 10 years behind bars, saying he could still pose a threat to women.

The sentencing came as another extraordinary #MeToo drama unfolded on Capitol Hill, where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stands accused of sexual misconduct more than three decades ago.

Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women of New York, credited Cosby’s accusers with helping pave the way for the #MeToo movement.

“Bill Cosby seeing the inside of a prison cell sends a strong message that predators — no matter who they are, from Hollywood to Wall Street to the Supreme Court — can no longer be protected at the expense of victims,” she said.

The judge ruled on Cosby’s “sexually violent predator” status after a psychologist for the state testified that the entertainer appears to have a mental disorder that gives him an uncontrollable urge to have sex with women without their consent.

Steele said Cosby could be sent to Laurel Highlands, a state prison for lower-risk inmates on the other side of the state, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It serves inmates with special needs and has separate housing units for geriatric prisoners and programs for sex offenders.

In a statement submitted to the court and released Tuesday, Constand, 45, said that she has had to cope with years of anxiety and self-doubt. She said she now lives alone with her two dogs and has trouble trusting people.

“When the sexual assault happened, I was a young woman brimming with confidence and looking forward to a future bright with possibilities,” she wrote in her five-page statement. “Now, almost 15 years later, I’m a middle-aged woman who’s been stuck in a holding pattern for most of her adult life, unable to heal fully or to move forward.”

She also wrote of Cosby: “We may never know the full extent of his double life as a sexual predator, but his decades-long reign of terror as a serial rapist is over.”

The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they come forward publicly, which Constand and other accusers have done.

Constand went to police a year after waking up in a fog at Cosby’s estate, her clothes askew, only to have the district attorney pass on the case. Another DA reopened the file a decade later and charged the TV star after stand-up comic Hannibal Buress’ riff about Cosby being a rapist prompted other women to come forward and after a federal judge, acting on a request from The Associated Press, unsealed some of Cosby’s startling, decade-old testimony in Constand’s related civil suit.

In his testimony, Cosby described sexual encounters with a string of actresses, models and other young women and talked about obtaining quaaludes to give to those he wanted to sleep with.

Cosby’s first trial in 2017 ended with a hung jury. He was convicted at a retrial that opened months after the #MeToo movement had taken down such figures as Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein, NBC’s Matt Lauer, actor Kevin Spacey and Sen. Al Franken.

Cosby, whose estimated fortune once topped $400 million, broke barriers in the 1960s as the first black actor to star in a network show, “I Spy.” He went on to superstardom as wise and understanding Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” a sitcom that showed America a new kind of black TV family: a warm and loving household led by two professionals, one a lawyer, the other a doctor.

He also found success with his Saturday morning cartoon “Fat Albert,” appeared in commercials for Jello-O pudding and became a public moralist, lecturing the black community about young people stealing things and wearing baggy pants. He won a Presidential Medal of Freedom and countless Emmys, Golden Globes and Grammy awards.

As the allegations mounted, his career all but collapsed, “Cosby Show” reruns were taken off the air, and one college after another stripped him of his honorary degrees.

An interim massage therapist at the St. Paul Athletic Club is accused of sexually assaulting a club member while he was giving the woman a massage at the downtown establishment this past May.

Gregory Quinn Holmes drank from a bottle of vodka during the May 29 session and groped the woman under her underwear, according to the criminal complaint filed against him Monday in Ramsey County District Court.

Holmes, 54, of Minneapolis faces one count of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Holmes worked for the club only to fill in for its regular massage therapist while she was on maternity leave, according to Stephanie Laitala-Rupp, president of the athletic club.

The facility took immediate action against Holmes after the woman reported his conduct, Laitala-Rupp said.

“We called the police and had him escorted from the building,” she said. “We took immediate action … and supported her completely … because this is something that shouldn’t happen.”

A member was receiving a massage from Holmes, who was known as “Quinn” at the club, when he reached under her underwear and groped her, the complaint said. At another point, she said he leaned his groin against her body.

The woman also reported observing Holmes drink vodka during the session and said he left briefly and returned smelling like marijuana, authorities say.

The member told Holmes she was uncomfortable with his conduct and demanded that he leave the room so she could get dressed and report it to the front desk, legal documents say.

Holmes reportedly followed her and tried to “block (her) from … saying anything,” the complaint said.

The front-desk worker told police that it appeared Holmes was trying to “intimidate” the club member as she relayed what happened, prompting the employee to shield the woman from Holmes by bringing her behind the front desk while she called police, legal documents say.

Police escorted him from the building.

The incident was the first complaint the club received about Holmes’ conduct, Laitala-Rupp said.

Holmes’ criminal record includes several alcohol-related violations, including leaving the scene of a death accident and criminal vehicular operation that resulted in substantial bodily harm. He’s also been convicted of disorderly conduct, criminal damage to property, and violating orders for protection related to domestic violence, court records say.

Laitala-Rupp said the St. Paul Athletic Club conducts background checks before hiring its employees and said she wasn’t sure how Holmes criminal past slipped through the cracks.

“We would never hire anyone knowingly, so it’s disappointing,” Laitala-Rupp said. “I am not sure what steps got missed and it’s tragic, clearly.”

Holmes’ contract with the club was terminated immediately after the incident, she added.

The club’s regular massage therapist has now returned to work.

No attorney was listed for Holmes in court records and he could not be reached for comment.

His LinkedIn profile indicates he works at the Natural Healing Spa in Vadnais Heights, but an employee who answered the phone there said she’d never heard of him.

Holmes’ next court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 24.

No charges will be filed against a St. Paul police officer who drove into another vehicle and left the scene, according to information released this week.

Nick Kellum, who has been involved in past crashes both on- and off-duty, told investigators he had no recollection of being involved in the April off-duty collision, according to a Minnesota State Patrol report. No one was injured in the crash, which resulted in minor damage.

Kellum saw doctors afterward and was diagnosed with “partial epilepsy with impairment of consciousness,” according to medical records he provided to investigators.

The Minneapolis city attorney’s office, which reviewed the case to avoid a conflict of interest for St. Paul prosecutors, decided not to charge Kellum due to insufficient evidence, according to a city of Minneapolis spokesman.

Fred Bruno, Kellum’s attorney, said the officer “cooperated fully”  with the independent investigation, conducted by the Minnesota State Patrol.

“This was ostensibly a medical issue and not a criminal event,” Bruno said Tuesday.

Kellum, who was part of the department’s gang unit at the time of the crash, was placed on paid administrative leave after the crash. He is now assigned to the department’s video-management unit.

Kellum is the subject of an open internal affairs investigation, according to his personnel file.

CRASH EARLIER THIS YEAR, IN YEARS PAST

In 2014, prosecutors charged Kellum with leaving the scene of an accident while on duty. He pleaded guilty to running a red light and prosecutors dropped the other charge, saying they had insufficient evidence to pursue the hit-and-run charge. He was disciplined at the police department.

In 2015, a 911 caller reported a St. Paul police SUV swerving on Interstate 94 before striking the freeway wall near Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, according to the State Patrol. The vehicle was found at 21st Street and Penn Avenue in Minneapolis and the driver, identified as Kellum, taken to the hospital.

In February, Kellum was involved in a crash when he was going to work in a police department vehicle. He hit a patch of ice and struck the center barrier on Interstate 35E, according to a police department memo.

Kellum’s supervisor issued him an oral reprimand, saying the department’s accident review board determined the crash was caused by driving inattentively and too fast for conditions, the memo said.

After the February crash, the police department issued Kellum a Jeep Cherokee, which he was driving at the time of April’s collision.

OFFICER WAS ‘DUMBFOUNDED’ WHEN SUPERVISOR ASKED ABOUT CRASH

On April 26, shortly after 1 p.m., a St. Paul officer responded to a report of a hit-and-run crash on White Bear Avenue near Third Street. A man driving a van told the officer he was so concerned “about the safety of others, that he had to contact police to get this dangerous driver off the street,” according to a St. Paul police report.

A Jeep twice bumped his van’s rear bumper while they were traveling 33 to 35 mph, the man reported. He watched the Jeep pull into a nearby gas station, and called police.

Surveillance footage showed the Jeep’s driver buy a fountain drink at the gas station and drive away. A St. Paul officer who viewed the video reported to the State Patrol that the man in the store was Kellum.

When Kellum talked to State Patrol investigators, he said he had dropped off laundry and then stopped at the gas station to get a drink because “his mouth became dry and he was extremely thirsty,” according to a State Patrol report released by the Minneapolis city attorney’s office.

A St. Paul police sergeant told the State Patrol that Kellum had not reported the crash to his supervisors and he found the Jeep freshly washed outside police headquarters.

That afternoon, a police commander called Kellum and asked “if he was okay following his accident,” Kellum told the State Patrol. “He stated he was ‘dumbfounded’ and didn’t know what (she) was talking about.”

Another officer told the State Patrol he saw Kellum about 2:35 or 2:40 p.m., before Kellum started his shift, and Kellum ” ‘froze’ and started shaking as he was reaching into his bag lunch,” according to the incident report. The officer said Kellum was initially unresponsive as he shouted his name and shook him; he encouraged him to get checked out by a doctor.

Kellum told investigators he had seizures in the past and had been taking prescription seizure medication since about 2003, according to the State Patrol report.

A carjacking in Columbia Heights — during which two teenagers were shot and wounded — was not random, officials said Tuesday.

“Investigation has determined a prior relationship between the victims and suspects in this case,” according to a statement from the Anoka County sheriff’s office, which is investigating the case with Columbia Heights police.

As of Tuesday afternoon, police had not found the stolen vehicle or suspects from Monday morning’s incident.

Officers were dispatched to the area of 42nd Avenue and Fillmore Street Northeast shortly after 5:30 a.m. Monday, after a 17-year-old from Maple Grove reported he had been shot and his vehicle stolen.

Police also found a 16-year-old male from Brooklyn Park had been shot. Both were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The stolen vehicle was a 2016 white Jeep Patriot with Minnesota license plate AWF-385. Police said Monday they were looking for two suspects, a male and a female.

Unions representing workers in Minnesota state prisons on Tuesday called for increased staffing and harsher penalties for inmates who assault staff members.

The call followed an assault on a corrections officer at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights around noon on Monday. Corrections officer Joe Parise, 37, a four-year veteran of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, died of a medical emergency after responding to the attack.

“You don’t go to work to die,” said Tim Henderson, associate director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5. “I can confidently say that there is a correctional officer shortage in every one of our facilities. We are not at 100 percent.”

Union leaders also asked for immediate implementation of the DOC’s proposed increased penalty for assaults on staff to 270 to 360 days in segregation; some offenders who have assaulted staff have served only 90 days, according to the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees, which represents caseworkers, therapists and others in Minnesota’s correctional facilities.

After learning of the inmate attack on Monday, Parise ran across the entire prison complex to help, Henderson said during a news conference at union headquarters in South St. Paul.

The corrections officer under attack was punched about 15 times in the face before Parise and others were able to restrain the inmate and move him to segregation, Henderson said.

After the incident, Parise said he wasn’t feeling well, returned to his unit and collapsed within 10 minutes, Henderson said.

“One would have to think there was a connection,” he said.

Parise, who was married and had a 2-year-old daughter, was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital in St. Paul; two other corrections workers were treated at Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater and released.

The incident remains under investigation.

“Joe died at work, on duty, helping a fellow officer and keeping everyone safe, like heroes do,” Henderson said. “That was just like him. He was always there to help a fellow correctional worker. He was one of ours.”

PARISE ‘PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE’

Parise was a Navy veteran and served on the Oak Park Heights prison’s honor guard, “making sure the flag was presented with respect,” Henderson said.

AFSCME Local 915 vice president Derek Magle said Parise was “the guy … who would put a smile on your face” when you were having a bad day. “We were all better to have known Joe and to have Joe be part of our brotherhood,” he said. “Joe’s sorely going to be missed.”

At a gathering of corrections officers on Saturday night, Parise, whose wife is pregnant with the couple’s first son, talked about wanting to transfer to the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater after the baby’s birth “to help them out … because he thought that would be the thing to do, that they needed help,” said Jeff Vars, president of the AFSCME Local 915. “That’s just the type of person Joe is.”

Vars said the mood at the prison on Tuesday was “pretty somber.”

“It’s a tough go,” he said. “When incidents happen, we support each other. We’re a close group. We hang out outside work, and we’re our best outlet for support and for backing each other and that’s how we get back.”

The prison remains on lockdown.

Henderson said the union will be working to get a “robust” staffing bill approved by the Minnesota Legislature during the 2019 session.

“We don’t expect any legislative game-playing or any politics to be involved with that,” he said. “It’s quite obvious we have concerns and safety and security issues going on. The department had recruitment and retention problems. That needs to be addressed. We are dealing with that. Nobody is sitting on their hands; everyone is working to make these facilities safe and secure.”

He said he hopes more Minnesotans apply to be corrections officers.

“These are good jobs,” he said. “There’s a lot of pride in the work that these corrections officers and staff do. … We need brave men and women to step up and take on these responsibilities.”

TWO MONTHS AFTER FATAL ATTACK

Monday’s attack came just two months after a Stillwater prison inmate allegedly used a prison-issued hammer and two improvised knives to kill a corrections officer. On July 18, inmate Edward Muhammad Johnson allegedly bludgeoned officer Joseph Gomm.

“There have been numerous attacks on corrections officers at state prisons this year, and employee safety and security must be the number one priority of the Department of Corrections,” MAPE president Chet Jorgenson said in a prepared statement.

A DOC spokeswoman said the agency shares the safety concerns raised by corrections officers and other employees, “who have lost two of their colleagues this year.”

The department requested funding for 187 additional corrections officer positions to increase staffing and improve safety, but the Legislature approved only 15 of those positions, DOC spokeswoman Sarah Fitzgerald said.

“The department is committed to doing everything possible to improve safety for everyone in our prisons,” she said.

Henderson said union members and officers must be part of the decision-making process in developing new staffing policies and procedures.

“We need to work harder,” he said. “We need to be diligent. Unfortunately, it takes some of these tragic events to happen to get these things moving. We’ve been asking and addressing the issues of morale for many years, and we’re going to continue to do that. We’re going to get this right. We’re not going to stop until we do.”

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A 25-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after police say he shot his roommate multiple times before burying him in a 10-foot pit last week in west-central Minnesota.

Jordan Jerome Dalman is being held in the Otter Tail County Jail on a $1 million bond.

Dalman, along with his parents, told the Otter Tail County sheriff’s office on Friday about an incident at his home north of Pelican Rapids.

Dalman told deputies his roommate died during a fight between the two. He said he buried his roommate’s body in a pit behind the house.

According to criminal charges filed Monday, an entire pickup truck was also buried in the pit.

After using heavy excavators, investigators found the roommate, 28-year-old Dylan Butler, dead in the pit. He had multiple gunshot wounds to his chest.

Police also found blood in a fish house on the property.

Dalman’s father says the blood came from Dalman attempting first aid on his roommate.

Prosecutors believe Dalman meant to kill his roommate when he shot him.

“It was an intentional murder, it just wasn’t with premeditation. Depending on if facts develop, that could change,” Otter Tail County Attorney Michelle Eldien said.

The state is prepared for the possibility of a self-defense claim.

“It’s certainly possible. There’s no statement yet. Limited information of what went on,” Eldien added.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension continues to investigate.

Butler and Dalman knew each other for a few years, having met in Colorado in gunsmith school.

Butler, a former resident of Oklahoma and Colorado, had been living at Dalman’s home since May, the sheriff’s office said.

Dalman’s parents described the roommates’ relationship as “strained.”

Police say the house had several guns in it, but they believe they found the one used to kill Butler.

If convicted, Dalman could spend up to 40 years in prison.

FARGO, N.D. — A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting the baby from her womb testified Tuesday that her boyfriend had pressured her to “produce a baby” after figuring out she had lied about being pregnant.

Brooke Crews told the court that she had concocted a phony pregnancy to keep from losing William Hoehn, who is on trial for conspiracy in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind. Hoehn has admitted helping to cover up the crime but says he didn’t know that Crews had planned to kill Greywind and take her baby. Crews testified that she never “explicitly” told Hoehn that was her plan.

Crews said Hoehn appeared surprised when he entered the bathroom in their apartment and discovered she had cut Greywind’s baby from her body. Crews said Hoehn then retrieved a rope and tightened it around Greywind’s neck, saying: “If she wasn’t dead before, she is now.”

Greywind’s daughter survived and is being raised by family.

Hoehn spoke regularly with his attorney, Daniel Borgen, during Crews’ testimony but showed little emotion. Crews was crying and sniffling throughout.

“You never told Will that you had planned to do this, is that right?” Borgen asked.

“Not kill Savanna for her baby, no,” Crews replied.

“In fact, there was never a conversation at all about killing Savanna and taking her baby,” Borgen said.

“Not explicitly,” she said.

It wasn’t clear what Crews meant by “explicitly.”

Crews later disputed Borgen’s assertion that she had told a fellow inmate at her New England prison that she had strangled Greywind. She also disputed that she told the same inmate that Hoehn and Greywind were having an affair and the baby might be Hoehn’s.

Crews described her relationship with Hoehn as rocky and violent, saying it was fueled by drugs and alcohol. She said they broke up at one point, and that’s when she lied to him about being pregnant. She went so far as to email him a phony positive pregnancy test and sonogram photo.

In early August, Hoehn told Crews he didn’t believe she was pregnant and said she needed “to produce a baby.” Crews said she believed this was “an ultimatum.”

“I took that to mean I better have a baby, no matter how it happened,” Crews said.

Crews originally told police that Greywind had given her the child. She later told police they had argued and that she pushed Greywind down and knocked her out before cutting her open. A medical examiner testified Monday that there was no evidence of any head injuries.

Crews stuck to her story Tuesday, saying she pushed Greywind, who was knocked out when her head hit the bathroom sink. Crews said that’s when she got a knife and began cutting the baby out.

Crews said the couple kept ropes around the house because Hoehn liked to tie her up during sex, including around her neck. She also said Hoehn expressed fantasies about killing people and Crews said she initially told him she would be interested in that, too.

The medical examiner who performed the autopsy, Dr. Victor Froloff, testified Monday that he isn’t sure whether Greywind died from blood loss or strangulation .

Greywind’s disappearance sparked several searches before her body was found several days later, shrouded in plastic and dumped in the Red River. Crews testified Tuesday that police missed Greywind’s body and her baby during three searches of the couple’s apartment.

Crews testified that Greywind’s body was in the bathroom closet and the baby was covered up next to Hoehn on a bed during one of those searches. She said Hoehn eventually moved Greywind’s body to a hollowed-out dresser and the two of them carried it out of the apartment.

Fargo Police Chief David Todd did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Crews’ testimony.

Crews pleaded guilty to murder and is serving life in prison without parole. She said she has no agreement with prosecutors for a lesser sentence in exchange for testifying.

Greywind’s death prompted North Dakota U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna’s Act, which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and slain Native American women. A similar bill has been introduced in the House.

A man is dead after a Tuesday afternoon shooting in South Minneapolis, police say.

Officers responded to a report of shots fired at East 21st Street and Bloomington Avenue South about 4:15 p.m., where they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to a news release issued by the Minneapolis Police Department. He was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died a short time later, the news release said.

Investigators have not made any arrests in the case, and they asked anyone with information about the shooting to call 1-800-222-8477.

The man’s identity will be released by the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office.

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal shooting in a South Minneapolis residential neighborhood.

Authorities say a gunman opened fire on the victim as he sat in a vehicle about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday near East 21st Street and Bloomington Avenue South. The suspect jumped into a waiting car that sped away from the scene.

Authorities say the victim was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died a short time later. He has not been identified.

Police haven’t said whether the man arrested is the shooter or the getaway driver.