Man shot and wounded at funeral on Minnesota reservation

Published 10:04 am Saturday, October 19, 2019

CLOQUET — One man was shot and a suspect was arrested after a shooting Friday on an American Indian reservation in northern Minnesota that prompted a lockdown of tribal offices and a school.

The shooting happened at around 10 a.m. during a funeral at a community center gymnasium on the Fond du Lac Band Reservation, police said. The suspect apparently shot an attendee in the head, and that man was taken to a hospital, said Derek Randall, the interim police chief in Cloquet, which abuts the reservation and is near Duluth.

Randall said initial reports suggested the shooting was at the school gymnasium, but authorities later learned it happened at the community center, WDIO-TV reported.

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The suspect was arrested and police recovered a rifle that they believe was used in the attack, said Randall, who added that investigators don’t believe it was a random attack.

The shooting prompted lockdowns of tribal offices and the reservation’s school.