Category Archives: Crime
State Patrol HEAT Enforcement Effort Nabs Shooting Suspect
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A new targeted speeding enforcement effort on highways around downtown Minneapolis, troopers arrested a driver suspected of being involved in multiple shootings. The Minnesota State...
Feb 20, 2022 Jake Judd/KNSI News
Wright Family, Activists See Injustice in Potter Sentence
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The issue of race was barely brought up during the trial of Kim Potter, a former suburban Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of manslaughter for killing Daunte Wright afte...
Feb 20, 2022 AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool
Registration Open for 2022 Earth Day Run in St. Cloud
(KNSI) - Central Minnesota's premier marathon race returns in 2022. Registration is open for the CentraCare Earth Day Run after missing two years due to the pandemic. Race organizer Bill Corcoran says...
Feb 20, 2022 Earth Day Run/Facebook
Former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter Sentenced
(KNSI) - Former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly Potter has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after being found guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 20-ye...
Feb 18, 2022 Court TV, via AP, Pool
Melrose Man Killed in Head On Crash Near Downtown Minneapolis
(KNSI) - The Minnesota State Patrol says a Melrose man is dead after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 394 Friday morning. A crash report from the state patrol says just before 4:00 a.m., a 20-year-old ...
Feb 18, 2022 Unsplash
Sharpton: Without No-Knock Warrant, Locke Would Be Alive
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton told the hundreds gathered Thursday for Amir Locke's funeral that the 22-year-old Black man would still be alive if Minneapolis had banned no-knock warrants. Sh...
Feb 17, 2022 Associated Press
Prosecution Questions Officer About Training at Civil Rights Trial
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's killing testified Thursday that he didn't act on another officer's suggestion to roll Floyd on his side after he st...
Feb 17, 2022 Hennepin County Jail via AP Photos
What to Watch at Kim Potter's Sentencing Hearing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she killed Daunte Wright will be sentenced Friday for manslaughter. Kim Potter was convi...
Feb 17, 2022 Court TV via AP, Pool
Arrest Made in Fatal Shooting of Deshaun Hill Junior
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis police say they have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a gifted student athlete. Fifteen-year-old Deshaun Hill Jr, an honor roll student and quarterback for the fo...
Feb 17, 2022 Unsplash
One of Four Murder Suspects Pleads Guilty
(KNSI) - One of four defendants accused of murdering a woman in a car and dumping her body alongside a road in St. Cloud is pleading guilty to aiding and abetting first-degree murder. Prosecutors in S...
Feb 16, 2022 Stearns County Jail