Four men now charged in drug-related shooting death in Inver Grove Heights The victim was killed in a drug-related robbery in Inver Grove Heights. February 16, 2021 5:08pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A 40-year-old New Prague man is the fourth person charged with murder in connection with a shooting during a drug-related robbery along an Inver Grove Heights road in January s final hours.
Jason R. Beck was charged Tuesday in Dakota County District Court with second-degree unintentional murder for his alleged role in the death on Jan. 31 of Bryant J. Lutgens, whose 39th birthday would have been the next day.
A warrant has been issued nationwide for Beck s arrest.
2nd arrest made after killing of Burnsville man in Inver Grove Heights
The 39-year-old victim was involved in a drug deal, according to a criminal complaint.
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Credit: Inver Grove Heights Police Department
A second person has been arrested following the killing of a man in Inver Grove Heights.
The south metro suburb s police department announced Tuesday that a 31-year-old Minneapolis man has been booked into the Dakota County Jail as a person of interest in relation to the homicide of Bryant Lutgens.
Lutgens, a 39-year-old Burnsville man, was found dead in a snowbank Feb. 1 on the 1300 block of 60th Street West, which runs just east of Interstate 494. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner s Office confirmed that Lutgens was fatally shot in the head.
A 42-year-old Minneapolis man has been charged with second-degree murder after a man was found dead in a snowbank in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota earlier this week, according to the Dakota County Attorney's Office.
Charges: Man buying drugs shot seller in the head, left him in Inver Grove Heights snowbank
Gabriel Cruz was meeting up with Bryant Lutgens to buy methamphetamines when he fatally shot him and took off with his belongings, charges state.
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Dakota County Jail
A Bloomington man looking to buy drugs shot another man in the head, leaving him in a snowbank in Inver Grove Heights and taking off with his belongings, charges say.
Gabriel Alfonso Sanchez Cruz, 42, of Bloomington, is charged in Dakota County District Court with second-degree murder in the death of 39-year-old Bryant Lutgens of Burnsville.
Lutgens was found dead in a snowbank on the 1300 block of 60th Street West in Inver Grove Heights at about 8 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 1, police said. He d been shot in the head.