Scott County Law Firm: The actions of St. Paul’s Officers in Belle Plaine shooting were justified – KSTP

Scott County staff said on Friday that officers who shot and killed a suspect in Bell Plain last year were justified in their actions.

District prosecutor Ron Josevar said the use of force from officers was “… necessary to protect these officers from death or major bodily harm” and that “the staff of the St. Paul Police Department have acted in an appropriate manner and within the law.”

On the evening of September 25, 2024, Carrie Shob Kvok, 66 -year -old, knelt on the street and worked on an art project in St. Paul when police claim that a man shot her.

After the shooting, the shooter, later identified as 29-year-old Shintrell Murdoch, followed in the home of a 100 block on Meridian Street in Bell Plain.

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While St. Paul’s police were betting the address the next morning, September 26, 2024, Murdoch appeared with a gun in his hand, and two officers shot him. He was an airline to the medical center of Hennepin County, but he did not survive.

No St. Paul police officers were hurt.

Later later, the Criminal Defense Bureau (BCA) later identified police officers from St. Paul, who fired their weapons in the incident such as Aaron sick and Lance Christanson. Bohlen has 10 years of law enforcement, and Christianson has 20 years of experience.

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Referring to the results of an investigation into the power of the Bureau of Criminal Retention in Minnesota (BCA), District Prosecutor Josevar said: “… While premature loss of life is always a tragedy, in this situation the employees acted reasonably and responsibly. As he tried to arrest Mr Murdoch peacefully for murder in the style of unarmed civilian in St. Paul of the previous day, Mr. Murdoch’s actions were far beyond the “resistance to arrest” and rose to the level of presentation of a clear and present danger to The Arresting officers. ”

Hochevar added: “… Employees are appropriately exercised the use of deadly force according to the Statute of Minnesota. Given the totality of these circumstances known to these employees at that time, such force was used as necessary to protect these employees from death or major bodily harm. “