Whoever fired that gun used deadly force, Tvedten said.
Tvedten said Priebe s gun was loaded, but it was not fired. Priebe s gun was moved from the scene, he said, but the first person to move it was someone who was not involved in the incident. It was picked up and handed to officers before being placed in the back of a squad car.
Priebe admitted to threatening to shoot Boose during the incident, but he did not shoot, Tvedten said.
Tvedten also emphasized that the trigger and guard on the handgun that was fired did not have much space to have multiple people s fingers in it.
Testimony begins in trial of man accused of shooting St. Cloud police officer in hand Man, 19, charged with first-degree assault against a peace officer. May 11, 2021 9:49pm Text size Copy shortlink:
ST. CLOUD – Eleven months after a St. Cloud police officer was shot in the hand during an altercation in a dark backyard, prosecutors and the defense argued in court Tuesday over the central question in the case. Who pulled the trigger? asked Ole Tvedten, chief of the criminal division at the Stearns County Attorney s Office, during his opening statement at the trial of 19-year-old Sumaree D. Boose.
Boose was charged last June with one felony count of first-degree assault against a peace officer. The encounter ignited rumors of Black men being hit by police gunfire and spurred two nights of violent unrest in the city despite rebuttals from officials.
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Man who took 5 hostages at a Minnesota bank threw cash, made threats and wanted to be a martyr, court docs say Clairissa Baker, St. Cloud Times
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. A man who took five hostages at a Minnesota Wells Fargo bank on Thursday wasn t armed with a gun but held scissors to a person s neck, destroyed hostages phones and threw cash around the bank during a eight-hour standoff Thursday, according to police and court documents.
Ray Reco McNeary, 35, told both hostages and law enforcement he intended to kill the employees, according to court documents. He said he wanted to “go viral” and to be a “martyr and also threatened to kill himself or put law enforcement in a position to kill him.
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Ray Reco McNeary, 35, has been charged with one felony count of first-degree aggravated robbery, five felony counts of kidnapping with a non-firearm weapon and one felony count of second-degree, non-firearm assault with a dangerous weapon.
The kidnapping charges reflect that three of the victims were released in a safe place, according to a Stearns County Attorney s Office release, and that two were not.
No gun was located on McNeary or at the bank, according to St. Cloud police.
Court records show a hearing was held Friday afternoon, but Judge Nathaniel Welte continued the bail hearing to Monday morning, according to a Stearns County Attorney s Office release, when McNeary was uncooperative and refused to appear for court.