joelrosenberg ([info]joelrosenberg) wrote,
@ 2004-06-22 20:58:00
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"The name of the suspect has not been released."
See if you can spot what's missing from this story:
Teen suspect caught in deadly Pine County shooting Updated: 06/22/2004 02:28:24 PM

ASKOV - After hours of searching, authorities have arrested a 15-year-old suspect in a deadly shooting near the town of Askov in Pine County.

The teen was taken into cutsody (sic) at around 1 p.m. Tuesday. He was apprehended near a collision center not far from Interstate 35 after he emerged from a wooded area.

Pine County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Steve Ovick identified the victim as Norman Rudolph Wright Jr., 48.

The shooting happened around 8:30 a.m. at Wright's home Jefferson Rd. about five miles northwest of Askov.

Ovick said Wright and his family recently moved there from the Twin Cities.

The cause of the shooting was under investigation. "We have no idea what prompted it," Ovick said.

Ovick said the presumed weapon, a handgun, had been recovered.

The name of the suspect was not released.



Nope. Not that the "teen suspect" isn't a permit holder.

What you're not being told -- although it will come out -- is that the suspect broke out of the police cordon around the area, and the folks who stopped him at the body shop were a couple of permit holders.

I'm not big on permit holders arresting people, but it sure looks like these guys were right to make an exception.

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-22 08:24 pm UTC (link)
Right. Apprehended by Police? No, that wasn't in the story.

But, of course, HANDGUN gets front and center.

Like to key us into where you discovered that PHer's wrapped this one up??

sg

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(Anonymous)
2004-06-22 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Teen held in father's shooting death
Tracy Swartz, Star Tribune
June 23, 2004 ASKOV0623
ASKOV, MINN. -- For more than four hours Tuesday, authorities searched this small town and the surrounding woods and prairie of Pine County looking for a boy who allegedly shot and killed his father earlier in the morning.

For more than four hours, the word was out that a 15-year-old boy was on the run.

So when the teenager appeared, armed with a gun, near Hwy. 23 just south of town early Tuesday afternoon, the three men working at a nearby auto shop -- Matt Gebhart, Scott Jorgensen and Brian Volk -- knew what to do.

They got their guns.

Minutes later, they surrounded the boy and talked him into dropping the gun. Deputies arrived a short time later and arrested the boy, identified by acquaintances as Dallas Wright, in connection with the shooting of his father, Norman R. Wright Jr., 47, on the front lawn of the family's home.

Dallas Wright is expected to appear in Pine County District Court today to be charged as a juvenile in connection with the crime.

"We have no idea what prompted it," Pine County Chief Deputy Steve Ovick said Tuesday.

"What possesses a 15-year-old to shoot his father?" Ovick said. "I don't know."

Wright family members declined to comment Tuesday as they gathered at a church not far from the family's home to meet with investigators.

Authorities, meanwhile, said little about what happened at the Wright house, located about 5 miles northwest of Askov. Ovick said he expected to be able to release more information about the incident today, after an autopsy.

The shooting was reported to police about 8:30 a.m. after one of Dallas' siblings called 911. Ovick said the boy's mother was at work in the Twin Cities and Dallas was home with his father and a younger sister and brother.

By the time authorities arrived at the house, the boy had fled in the family's SUV, Ovick said. He abandoned the vehicle several miles from the house.

Officers from the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the State Patrol and nearby Kanabec and Carlton counties gathered at the church to begin coordinating their manhunt.

Within the hour, a State Patrol helicopter was searching for Dallas, and news of what happened spread quickly throughout this city of 400 people, about 100 miles north of the Twin Cities.

As authorities searched the town and surrounding area, Gebhart and his coworkers were busy at his auto body shop about a mile south of Askov. Although they'd heard about the hunt on the police scanner, they weren't looking for the boy.

But when a neighbor called to say that a boy matching Dallas' description was walking on the road near the shop, about 6 miles south of the Wright home, Volk ducked into the woods to get a better look.

Gebhart and Jorgensen got their guns.

As Dallas drew near, Volk asked the boy where he was going. Dallas replied that he was going to the store.

Gebhart and Jorgensen, both armed, confronted the boy and asked him if he had a gun.

Dallas said, "Yeah," Volk said.

Gebhart then told the boy to drop his pistol. Volk told him to lie on the ground.

The teenager obeyed and stayed face down in the grass for a few minutes until authorities arrived to make the arrest.

"I just knew that somebody had to stop him before he done it to someone else," Jorgensen said.

...snip...

"They got their guns"....the Strib would NEVER admit that these folks were law-abiding citizens. Only that they "got their guns".

sg

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Wholly Crap!!
(Anonymous)
2004-06-22 09:00 pm UTC (link)
Oh, even better!!!! The Pioneer Press......

Posted on Tue, Jun. 22, 2004
Teen arrested on suspicion of killing dad
BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED
Pioneer Press
A 15-year-old boy suspected of shooting his father to death this morning in rural Pine County was arrested this afternoon.


After the media broadcast the boy’s description, a businessman spotted the boy walking along a road south of Askov, Minn. He pinned the boy to the ground until sheriff’s deputies arrived to arrest him at about 1 p.m., said Pine County Chief Deputy Steve Ovick.
The boy was unarmed, but the weapon suspected in the shooting was found. He apparently discarded it on the side of the road, Ovick said.
Norman Rudolph Wright Jr., 47, the boy’s father, was found dead this morning at a house near Askov, in east-central Minnesota, about 90 miles north of St. Paul, Ovick said. Two of the boy’s siblings were home at the time and deputies are interviewing them, Ovick said.
The motive for the shooting is unknown, Ovick said. The boy is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
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Huh?

sg






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