Woman says she was 15 yards away when Fargo officer was shot

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A woman says she saw a police officer being shot to death outside her Fargo home during an 11-hour standoff two months ago.

Officer Jason Moszer, 33, died on Feb. 11 of a single gunshot wound after he responded to a domestic disturbance at a house near downtown Fargo. The gunman, Marcus Schumacher, was wounded by a police sniper then fatally shot himself.

Heather Stuberg told KFGO radio that it was dark, but that she saw Moszer standing about 15 yards from her home.

“I saw that person fall to the ground. That was basically what I saw; someone standing by the garage and falling forward,” Stuberg said.

Moszer, a six-year veteran of the force, was the first Fargo police officer to die in the line of duty in more than a century.

After Moszer was shot, police drove an armored vehicle known as a Bearcat into the area to protect them from gunfire as they tried to rescue the officer.

“We saw them pull him into the Bearcat and just continued to hear them say: ’Jason, it’s gonna be OK. We’re gonna get you out of here. Everything’s going to be OK, Jason,’” she said, adding that this was the hardest part to watch.

The following day, Stuberg found a bullet hole in the side of her home, about 5 feet from the window through which she and her fiance had been watching the events unfold.

“That was very scary for us,” she said.