MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Police officers shot and wounded a man who drove at them in a parking ramp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in a confrontation that also injured one of the officers, authorities said Sunday.
The shooting happened about 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the Hertz rental car area on the second level of Terminal 1, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office. The airport has seen a rise in rental car thefts recently, the Star Tribune (https://strib.mn/1J0BgfZhttps://strib.mn/1J0BgfZ ) reported.
Airport police had received a call about two suspicious people in the ramp, airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said. Police were dealing with a person in one car while the suspect in another car drove at the officers, the sheriff’s office said. Officers then fired on the vehicle, and an officer also was hurt, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Lisa Kiava.
The driver, a 36-year-old Twin Cities man, was hospitalized, authorities said at a news briefing Sunday. He has not been charged. The suspect and the officer are both expected to survive, Kiava said.
Authorities did not explain how the officer’s injuries were inflicted.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota National Guard will use 15 military trucks to deliver water as part of its initial response to a bird flu outbreak in Minnesota.
The state Department of Public Safety says the trucks will provide large amounts of water needed in foaming systems being used to euthanize diseased flocks to contain the virus.
Thirty National Guard soldiers will be used in the mission. The Star Tribune (https://gbpg.net/1Dqht4xhttps://gbpg.net/1Dqht4x ) reports the trucks come from the Willmar-based 682nd Engineer Battalion and the Brooklyn Park-based A Company, 134th Brigade Support Battalion.
The soldiers start working Monday and continue through Wednesday.
The Guard was activated as part of Gov. Mark Dayton’s declaration of a state of emergency Thursday. Bird flu has infected dozens of turkey operations in Minnesota and at least one chicken operation.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Gov. Mark Dayton will convene his Executive Council on Monday as Minnesota responds to a bird flu outbreak that has killed millions of birds in the state’s poultry industry.
The council will consider extending for up to 30 days the state of emergency Dayton declared on Thursday. The governor’s order activates an emergency operations plan to support the state response to the epidemic.
On Saturday, Dayton along with U.S. Sen. Al Franken and U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson met with emergency responders and turkey producers in Willmar - home to Jennie-O Turkey Store, the country’s No. 2 turkey processor. Kandiyohi County is Minnesota’s top turkey producing county.
KMSP-TV (https://bit.ly/1A24mqd) reports Franken said the outbreak is serious because it’s not only affected producers but also their families and employees.
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LITTLE CANADA, Minn. (AP) - Crews have recovered the body of a missing canoeist on an eastern Twin Cities lake.
The accident was reported just before noon Sunday. The Ramsey County sheriff’s office says a man was reported missing after a canoe overturned on Twin Lake in Little Canada.
KSTP-TV (https://bit.ly/1IcW9qahttps://bit.ly/1IcW9qa ) reports authorities searched the lake until the man’s body was recovered late Sunday afternoon.
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Information from: KSTP-TV, https://www.kstp.comhttps://www.kstp.com
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