Jury Seated in Trial Against Buffalo Clinic Shooting Suspect

(KNSI) — The jury for the trial of the suspect accused of shooting up a health clinic has been seated.

Gregory Ulrich is accused of walking into the Allina Crossroads Buffalo Clinic on February 9th, 2021, and opening fire, killing one person and seriously injuring four others. Ulrich also allegedly detonated two improvised explosive devices – one at the clinic’s entrance and the other near a desk in the clinic’s interior.

In October, a grand jury indicted him on first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree attempted murder. The 68-year-old Ulrich is also charged with one count of felony use of an explosive device and felon in possession of a firearm.

Sixteen jurors were selected – 12 will hear the case and four alternates.

Thirty-seven-year-old nurse Lindsay Overbay was killed. Four others were seriously injured. One person was reportedly shot six times. Overbay, who had been married for ten years, lived in Maple Lake with her husband and two children. She was also a graduate of St. Cloud State University, where she earned her degree in journalism.

Ulrich has a long history of conflict with medical clinics in the area and had been unhappy with the care he had received, Buffalo Police Chief Pat Budke said. According to a police report, Ulrich threatened to carry out a mass shooting at the clinic in October 2018. A doctor told investigators that Ulrich had talked about “shooting, blowing things up, and practicing different scenarios of getting revenge.”

Allina’s medical staff believed Ulrich might act on the threats and filed paperwork barring him from the company’s property, which police delivered to his home the next month. A criminal charge of violating a harassment restraining order was filed a couple of weeks later. The nature of that violation isn’t clear in court papers, but orders filed in that case in 2018 and 2019 prohibited Ulrich from having contact with a man whose name matches that of the doctor named in the police report. The charge of violating the restraining order was dismissed last April when the prosecutor said Ulrich was found “mentally incompetent to proceed.”

Opening statements are scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 23rd. According to attorneys, opening statements are “expected to be brief – likely less than one hour – and witnesses will begin taking the stand following opening statements Monday afternoon.”

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