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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Killed in Crash Monday Morning

Saint Cloud, MN, USA / KNSI
Jennifer Lewerenz
May 24, 2021 | 3:17 PM
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(KNSI) – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says one of its conservation officers died in the line of duty Monday morning.

According to a press release from the DNR, The officer was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Grand Rapids. Their name is being withheld pending family notification.

Details surrounding the crash have not been released.

The DNR says it has “expressed its deepest condolences to the officer’s family for this tragic loss.”

The last DNR Conservation Officer to die in the line of duty was in 2019 when 43-year-old Eugene Wynn was thrown from a boat in Pine County while responding to a call about a possible body in the water on Cross Lake.

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