A Saturday morning shooting in Lindstrom ended with the suspect dead after law enforcement shot him, and authorities said there was no longer any threat to the public. One other person died and a third was taken to a trauma center after the response that brought deputies and several other agencies to a neighborhood off Stacy Trail.
Captain Dereck Anklan said the Chisago County Sheriff’s Office began getting 911 calls at about 11 a.m. about shots fired near the 12,000th block of Stacy Trail. Deputies and other law enforcement agencies then responded to what was first described as an active shooter call at a residence, and the contact they made with the suspect ended in gunfire.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect was shot by law enforcement and later died. Anklan said there were two additional involved individuals, with one pronounced dead and the other taken to a regional trauma center for treatment. No law enforcement officers were injured.
That leaves the central unanswered question in the case: how the two additional involved individuals fit into the shooting. The sheriff’s office did not say whether they were inside the residence, whether they were the intended targets of the gunfire, or how the response escalated from a report of shots fired to a fatal officer-involved shooting.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the officer-involved shooting, and the facts released so far point to a fast-moving scene that ended with the public danger lifted but the full sequence still unfinished. For now, Anklan’s message was plain: the suspect is dead, there is no threat to the public, and investigators are still sorting out exactly what happened in Lindstrom.
