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    Body of missing University of Minnesota student found in Mississippi River

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    Local authorities made an announcement Friday, twelve days after University of Minnesota honors student Austin Retterath was reported missing, that his body had been found in the Mississippi River. 

    The University of Minnesota Police Department announced on its Facebook page Friday that, alongside the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, they were canceling their missing person alert for 19-year-old Retterath. This comes after the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office had identified a man found deceased in the Mississippi River two days earlier Wednesday as the same missing honors engineering student. 

    The investigation concluded there was no indication of foul play, according to the agencies. 

    Retterath, described as standing approximately 6-foot-2, weighing 160 pounds, and having blonde hair, was last seen alive on May 8 in the area of East River Road and Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. 

    KENTUCKY PEDIATRICIAN ARRESTED IN ALLEGED MURDER FOR HIRE PLOT TO HAVE HITMAN KILL EX-HUSBAND 

    University of Minnesota student Austin Retterath went missing on May 8.  (Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension )

    His cause of death was not immediately known. 

    FOX 9 Minneapolis previously reported the teen was enrolled in the College of Science and Engineering. He reportedly made the dean’s list in the fall of 2021. 

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    The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that his Instagram account says he is a member of the university’s class of 2025.

    Minneapolis teen cousin of Amir Locke accepts plea deal, tried as adult in murder that prompted SWAT raid

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    The teen cousin of Amir Locke, who was shot and killed by Minneapolis police executing a no-knock warrant in February, agreed to a plea deal in the murder of a suspected drug dealer that had prompted the raid.  

    The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that Mekhi C. Speed, who turned 18 in the months following the Jan. 10 deadly shooting of 38-year-old Otis R. Elder during a suspected drug deal outside a St. Paul, Minnesota, music recording studio, has agreed to the case being moved to adult court. 

    In exchange, the state will drop the top charge of second-degree intentional murder, and Speed is to plead guilty to the lesser count of aiding and abetting second-degree murder in court Friday. 

    MINNEAPOLIS OFFICER WHO FATALLY SHOT AMIR LOCKE IN SWAT RAID WILL NOT BE CHARGED 

    “It’s a slap in the face to our family,” the victim’s sister, Latasha Elder, told Fox 9 Minneapolis. “I’m not sure why they will give him a plea deal that low.” 

    A protester holds a sign demanding justice for Amir Locke at a rally on Feb. 5, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)

    Speed was the subject the homicide investigation that prompted the early morning Feb. 2 raid that resulted in Locke’s death. 

    The police shooting of the 22-year-old Black man prompted riots, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey issued a temporary moratorium and then a broader policy ban on no-knock warrants. 

    In this image taken from Minneapolis Police Department body camera video and released by the city, 22-year-old Amir Locke is wrapped in a blanket on a couch and holding a gun moments before he was fatally shot.  (Minneapolis Police Department via AP)

    Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced in April that Minneapolis police Officer Mark Hanneman will not face charges in Locke’s death. His use of deadly force was justified because body camera video showed Locke moving around beneath a blanket and emerging with a gun pointed toward at least one SWAT officer before Hanneman opened fire.  

    Elder’s sister said Speed, not police, should be held accountable for his cousin’s death. 

    “I believe he should get some type of sentence for that as well,” Latasha Elder told Fox 9. “It’s his fault. All the damage that he caused.”

    People march at a rally for Amir Locke on Feb. 5, 2022, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa File)

    She feared that “my brother won’t be the last” even if Speed gets locked up for a decade or more, arguing he already had his second chance in being granted supervised release of a minor after shooting another teenager in a leg outside a Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, gas station in September 2020.

    “If he gets another chance, my brother won’t be the last,” she said. “Because look at the system. The system failed.”

    In requesting the no-knock warrant to enter the apartment, a detective had argued it could protect officers’ safety and noted how the teenage suspects in Elder’s murder had been seen flashing different firearms to include a rifle in social media posts and were linked to a string of carjackings.

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    Fox News Digital previously confirmed that the no-knock warrant was signed off by Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, the same judge who presided over the trial for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

    Though the no-knock stipulation was granted, police body camera footage showed about nine SWAT officers each announced “police, search warrant” as they entered the apartment where Locke was ultimately killed. 

    The then 17-year-old Speed, who Fox News Digital did not name in prior reports because of his age and his case originally being prosecuted in juvenile court, was arrested four days after the raid about 120 miles away in Winona, Minnesota. A 16-year-old suspect was also later arrested as an alleged accomplice in Elder’s murder. 

    Minnesota police investigate after GOP candidate allegedly threatened, nearly run over while campaigning

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    Minnesota police are investigating an incident in which a Republican candidate running for U.S. Congress was allegedly threatened while she was out campaigning door-to-door this week. 

    In an update provided Wednesday, the Faribault Police Department, which serves the city approximately 50 miles south of Minneapolis, said investigators have identified a suspect in the incident involving Jennifer Carnahan, who served three terms as chair of the Minnesota Republican Party from 2017 to 2021. 

    The widow of former U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died this February after a battle with cancer, Carnahan is running in this year’s special election to finish the rest of her late husband’s term. 

    SEARCH FOR UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDENT CONTINUES NEAR MISSISSIPPI RIVER 

    State Republican Party chair Jennifer Carnahan applauds during a rally for President Donald Trump at the Bemidji Regional Airport on Sept. 18, 2020, in Bemidji, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

    “Today’s events remind me how important it is we take our nation back from the radical left, as well as restore the rule of law in Minnesota and across the nation,” Carnahan said in a statement following Tuesday’s incident. “The unfortunate events of today will not deter me from continuing to fight for the people of southern Minnesota and to put America First.”

    Faribault officers were dispatched at approximately 5:25 p.m. Tuesday to a complaint of a threat.  

    Jim Hagedorn campaigning in La Crescent, Minnesota, on Sept. 16, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

    Carnahan told officers that she was going door to door to campaign for Congress when she was approached in the 1000 block of 1st Street SE by an individual who made several threatening comments to her, according to the police department’s initial press release about the incident. 

    The candidate also reported that the individual, described as a White male between the ages of 18 and 20 years old, swerved his blue Ford Focus at her as she walked away, police said. 

    Jennifer Carnahan, chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota, mingles at a Republican gubernatorial forum in Waconia, Minn., July 19, 2017. (Scott Takushi/MediaNews Group/St. Paul Pioneer Press via Getty Images)

    Faribault Police Chief John Sherwin condemned the behavior as “unacceptable” and initially pleaded for assistance from witnesses or anyone with additional information to help identify the suspect involved and his vehicle. Police said Wednesday the department was no longer seeking information regarding the identification or the suspect’s vehicle, explaining that detectives identified and contacted him at his home in the Faribault area Tuesday evening. The investigation remains active Wednesday. 

    Describing what happened in a statement shared to her Facebook page, Carnahan said she was door knocking in the city of Faribault when “something very scary happened to me,” describing how “shaking in rage,” a young man “swore at me and threatened me – telling me my life was not safe on the streets.” 

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    “Minutes later he got in his car, drove at what appeared to be an accelerated speed for a residential road, accelerated and swerved toward me as I was walking on the street,” Carnahan said. 

    “I thankfully suffered no harm, immediately called 911, filed a police report and plan to pursue all appropriate charges against this individual,” she added. “I sincerely thank the men and women of the Faribault Police Department and 911 call centers for responding immediately, helping me through a very scary encounter and all our law enforcement officers do to keep us safe.” 

    Minnesota police body cam shows Daunte Wright’s mom in tense exchange with cops: ‘I will sue you’

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    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video this week that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday.

    Katie Wright is the mother of Daunte Wright, who was killed in a police shooting in April 2021. She says that she pulled over on a highway to record a large police presence on the opposite side of the highway, according to FOX 9.

    FORMER MINNESOTA POLICE CHIEF OUSTED AFTER DAUNTE WRIGHT KILLING SAYS HE LOST JOB FOR DOING ‘THE RIGHT THINGS’

    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    Wright live-streamed the incident from her phone on Wednesday, and a Brooklyn Center police officer is seen approaching her about 12 minutes into the video.

    Body camera footage released by the Brooklyn Center Police Department shows an officer taking the phone out of Wright’s hand and appearing to grab her wrist.

    Wright then tells the officer that she’s the mother of Daunte Wright and said that she’s going to videotape the incident taking place across the median.

    The officer asked Wright for her driver’s license, and then says that he’s going to take her to jail if she refuses to provide it.

    KIM POTTER TRIAL: MINNEAPOLIS JURY FINDS EX-POLICE OFFICER GUILTY IN DEATH OF DAUNTE WRIGHT

    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    “My name is Katie Wright, and you guys killed my son. And I’m going to videotape it, and if you take me to jail, I will sue you,” Wright said.

    The city said in a statement to FOX 9 that the person being arrested in the incident told police “she did not want to be filmed and wanted the person filming to stop,” referring to Wright, and said the traffic stop was in relation to a homicide investigation.

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    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    In a news conference on Thursday, Wright accused the police officer of escalating a situation “that didn’t need to be escalated.”

    “I was not breaking the law,” Wright said. “I was only doing what was right and what everybody else should do. And I’m standing here today because I don’t want a police officer like that patrolling our community. He escalated a situation that didn’t need to be escalated.”

    Minnesota police body cam shows Daunte Wright’s mom in tense exchange with cops: ‘I will sue you’

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    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video this week that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday.

    Katie Wright is the mother of Daunte Wright, who was killed in a police shooting in April 2021. She says that she pulled over on a highway to record a large police presence on the opposite side of the highway, according to FOX 9.

    FORMER MINNESOTA POLICE CHIEF OUSTED AFTER DAUNTE WRIGHT KILLING SAYS HE LOST JOB FOR DOING ‘THE RIGHT THINGS’

    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    Wright live-streamed the incident from her phone on Wednesday, and a Brooklyn Center police officer is seen approaching her about 12 minutes into the video.

    Body camera footage released by the Brooklyn Center Police Department shows an officer taking the phone out of Wright’s hand and appearing to grab her wrist.

    Wright then tells the officer that she’s the mother of Daunte Wright and said that she’s going to videotape the incident taking place across the median.

    The officer asked Wright for her driver’s license, and then says that he’s going to take her to jail if she refuses to provide it.

    KIM POTTER TRIAL: MINNEAPOLIS JURY FINDS EX-POLICE OFFICER GUILTY IN DEATH OF DAUNTE WRIGHT

    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    “My name is Katie Wright, and you guys killed my son. And I’m going to videotape it, and if you take me to jail, I will sue you,” Wright said.

    The city said in a statement to FOX 9 that the person being arrested in the incident told police “she did not want to be filmed and wanted the person filming to stop,” referring to Wright, and said the traffic stop was in relation to a homicide investigation.

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    Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota released body camera video on Friday that shows an officer grabbing the phone of Daunte Wright’s mother as she was recording officers performing a traffic stop on Wednesday. (Brooklyn Center Police Department)

    In a news conference on Thursday, Wright accused the police officer of escalating a situation “that didn’t need to be escalated.”

    “I was not breaking the law,” Wright said. “I was only doing what was right and what everybody else should do. And I’m standing here today because I don’t want a police officer like that patrolling our community. He escalated a situation that didn’t need to be escalated.”

    Minnesota crews rescue man from sinking pickup

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    A man in Minnesota was rescued after being stuck on the top of his pickup truck that went into a pond in Lakeville.

    Traffic cameras from the Minnesota Department of Transportation show emergency crews making the rescue on Tuesday around 2 p.m. along Interstate 35, according to FOX 9 Minneapolis.

    FLORIDA MAN LEADS COPS ON 6-COUNTY, 178 MPH CHASE BEFORE BEING CAPTURED BY K-9 NAMED ZORRO

    A man in Minnesota was rescued after being stuck on the top of his pickup truck which went into a pond in Lakeville. (Minnesota Department of Transportation)

    After his vehicle went into the pond, the driver was able to exit the door on the driver’s side and get on the top of the car until he was rescued.

    It’s not clear how the pickup truck winded up in the pond, according to the report.

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    A man in Minnesota was rescued after being stuck on the top of his pickup truck which went into a pond in Lakeville. (Minnesota Department of Transportation)

    Lakeville is about a 30 minute drive from Minneapolis.

    Biden to give remarks at Walter Mondale’s memorial service

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    President Bident traveled to Minnesota on Sunday to deliver remarks at former Vice President Walter Mondale’s memorial service.

    Mondale died in April 2021 at 93. Biden wanted to attend because he had “an important personal relationship” with Mondale, according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. The service was delayed due to COVID-19.

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    Former Vice President Walter Mondale smiles as he gets on an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 3, 2018. Biden plans to speak at a memorial service in Minnesota on Sunday, May 1, for Mondale, who died last April at age 93. (AP)

    Biden described Mondale as “one of our nation’s most dedicated patriots and public servants.”

    The service is being held on Sunday by invitation only in Minneapolis, but is being live-streamed. It will go from 1:30 to 3 p.m. CDT.

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    Biden to speak at memorial service for former VP Mondale

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    President Biden plans to gather with other dignitaries in Minneapolis Sunday to remember former Vice President Walter Mondale at a memorial service his family delayed for a year due to the pandemic.

    Mondale died in April 2021 at age 93. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden wanted to attend the memorial because he had “an important personal relationship” with Mondale.

    WALTER MONDALE DEAD: BIDEN, OTHERS REMEMBER EX-VICE PRESIDENT

    Biden has described Mondale as a “one of our nation’s most dedicated patriots and public servants.”

    Former Vice President Walter Mondale smiles as he gets on an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 3, 2018. Biden plans to speak at a memorial service in Minnesota Sunday, May 1, 2022, for Mondale, who died last April at age 93.   (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

    Admission is by invitation only, but the service will be livestreamed for the public. It’s scheduled to run from 1:30 to 3 p.m. CDT.

    Other speakers for the event at the University of Minnesota include Gov. Tim Walz, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith and Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Presidential historian Jon Meacham will deliver the keynote eulogy.

    Mondale was a graduate of the university and its law school, and the law school building is named after him. The service plans a performance of “Tomorrow” from “Annie,” and a closing by the university’s marching band, which will send people away with the “Minnesota Rouser” fight song.

    In this May 1, 2019, file photo, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Mondale followed a trail blazed by his political mentor, Hubert H. Humphrey, serving as Minnesota attorney general before replacing Humphrey in the U.S. Senate. He served as vice president under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

    MONDALE REMEMBERED BY GERALDINE FERRARO’S DAUGHTER

    And he lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections ever to Ronald Reagan in 1984. He carried only Minnesota and the District of Columbia after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won. But he made history in that race by picking Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, becoming the first major-party nominee to put a woman on the ticket

    Walter Mondale, selected as Jimmy Carter’s running mate in the 1976 presidential election. He was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1984 but was defeated by Ronald Reagan and retired shortly afterward.  (Evening Standard/Getty Images)

    Mondale remained a revered liberal elder with a long list of accomplishments and went on to serve as ambassador to Japan under President Bill Clinton. But he wasn’t done with politics. In 2002, at 74, he was drafted to run for the Senate again after Sen. Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash shortly before the election. Mondale lost the abbreviated race to Republican Norm Coleman.

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    Biden paid tribute to Mondale at the time of his death last year, saying, “There have been few senators, before or since, who commanded such universal respect. … It was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership and helped provide a model for my service.”

    Lily Peters killing: 10-year-old’s autopsy underway as suspect prepares for 1st court appearance

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    A Wisconsin coroner could have autopsy results in the shocking slaying of 10-year-old Lily Peters available as early as today, as her suspected killer, a juvenile, is slated for a preliminary court appearance.

    Lily’s remains were sent across state lines to the much larger jurisdiction of Ramsey County, Minnesota, which includes the city of St. Paul, where the autopsy was performed. Officials there said the results would be announced by authorities in her hometown.

    Chippewa County Coroner Ronald Patten did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Liliana “Lily” Peters, 10, was reported missing in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, around 9 p.m. Sunday, according to Matthew Kelm, the city’s police chief. (Chippewa Falls Police Department)

    LILY PETERS UPDATE: CHIPPEWA FALLS POLICE ANNOUNCE ARREST OF JUVENILE SUSPECT

    For the suspect’s bond hearing, the judge said cameras are not allowed in the courtroom for the proceedings at 1 p.m. CT. The unidentified juvenile suspect was expected to appear remotely.

    Lily’s father reported her missing Sunday night after she failed to return home from her aunt’s house, according to Chippewa Falls police. A search team found her remains the following morning nearby, in a suburban area flanked by parkland and the famous Leinenkugel’s brewery.

    On Tuesday, Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm said an unidentified juvenile suspect had been taken into custody.

    Wisconsin police announced increased patrols around schools in Chippewa Falls Tuesday, two days after 10-year-old Lily Peters was murdered in the woods near the famed Leinenkugel’s brewery. (Chippewa Falls Police Department)

    “First and most importantly, earlier this evening we arrested a juvenile suspect in this case,” he said. “The suspect was not a stranger. The suspect was known to the victim. We do not believe there is any danger to the community at this time.”

    LILY PETERS KILLING: CHIPPEWA FALLS POLICE INCREASE SCHOOL PATROLS, WARN PARENTS TO BE VIGILANT

    Police also served a search warrant at the aunt’s home on North Grove Street. Kelm would not comment on whether the suspect was arrested at the same address or related to Lily during his news briefing.

    Lily Peters’ remains were found in the woods near the end of North Grove Road, which turns into a walking trail.  (Google Maps)

    The chief declined to answer questions about the suspect’s age and gender but appeared to let a hint slip later in his briefing when asked where the suspect was being held.

    “I’m not sure where the suspect is right now, but he is in custody,” Kelm said.

    Police received more than 200 tips in the case, which Kelm said helped lead police to the suspect.                                                                                                                                 

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    The investigation remained ongoing and anyone with information on the case was asked to call police at 1-800-263-5906.

    Minnesota 10-year-old boy fatally shot in apartment with second child, no adults present

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    A 10-year-old boy was shot and killed in a Minneapolis apartment while home with another juvenile shortly before midnight on Friday, police said. 

    Officers respond to a call about a shooting at the downtown apartment complex around 11:35 p.m. when they made the grim discovery. 

    Emergency responders immediately started performing CPR and transferred the boy to a local hospital, where he later died. 

    • Minneapolis Police Department officers walking into the building where a 10-year-old boy was shot and killed on Friday evening.  (Fox 9 Minneapolis St. Paul )

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    “We have two juveniles alone in a residence with access to a gun, and that is always a bad recipe,” Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson Garrett Parten said at a news conference Saturday. 

    CALIFORNIA GIRL, 9, SHOT AT MALL WAS WAITING TO TAKE PICTURES WITH EASTER BUNNY

    The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will perform an autopsy and determine the child’s exact cause of death before identifying the boy. 

    Police have not released the age of the other juvenile who was home at the time of the shooting. 

    • The 10-year-old boy was home alone with another juvenile at the time of the shooting.  (Fox 9 Minneapolis St. Paul )

    • (Fox 9 Minneapolis St. Paul )

    The Minneapolis Police Department is now urging the public to secure their guns in the wake of the shooting. 

    “We are asking that any gun owner or anybody who has weapons in their homes to please take every measure necessary to secure their weapons,” Parten said. 

    “That would include things like trigger locks and securing these weapons in a containment unit that is locked and not easy to get open, something like a gun safe.”

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    So far this year, 88 children and 371 teens have been killed by firearms, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive.