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ST. PAUL, Minn. (news agencies) — Authorities in Minnesota are continuing to investigate the killings of two police officers and a firefighter who responded to a domestic incident at home in suburban Minneapolis. Investigators say the three were slain by an armed man who opened fire on responders from the home while seven children were inside.
Killed early Sunday were Burnsville Police Officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and Adam Finseth, 40, a firefighter and paramedic who was assigned to the city’s SWAT team. A third officer, Sgt. Adam Medlicott, was also shot but survived and is recovering at home.
The gunman, Shannon Gooden, 38, of Burnsville, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the medical examiner said Tuesday. Court records show he wasn’t legally allowed to have guns because of his criminal record and had been entangled in a yearslong dispute over the custody and financial support of his three oldest children.
Here’s a look at what’s known — and not known — about the shootings, which shook Burnsville, a city of around 64,000 located about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of downtown Minneapolis:
Police got a 911 call around 1:50 a.m. Sunday about a “domestic situation where a man was reported to be armed and barricaded with family members in the home,” according to Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is leading the investigation. That included seven children ages 2 to 15 years. Evans declined to say which resident called.
The arriving officers “spent quite a bit of time” negotiating with Gooden, Evans told reporters Sunday. At some point — he declined to specify when — Gooden opened fire, killing the two officers and the firefighter, and wounding the third officer.
Gooden was “reported to be deceased in the home” around 8 a.m., Evans said, and the children and other family members were later able to escape. The superintendent declined to say how long officers negotiated with him.
Because the case is still under investigation, the BCA hasn’t released more than broad outlines of what transpired on Sunday. That’s common in major cases as investigators seek to gather all the available evidence, including statements from everybody involved, and review body camera and other videos, process the ballistic and other evidence, and review the medical examiner’s reports.
