BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - A suspect was in custody Monday after an overnight standoff in Bloomington that left his wife dead and two people hospitalized, including a critically injured 12-year-old girl.
Police said officers were called to a home just after 11 p.m. Sunday and found a woman dead in the garage. Officers heard a man yelling in the house, but he refused to come out and fired multiple shots from inside, the department said. The officers arrested him early Monday.
The suspect was in the basement and uncooperative “for quite some time,” Police Chief Jeff Potts said. The man fired as many as 40 shots, the chief said. Officers returned fire but did not hit the suspect, he said.
“Our officers were working from outside the home trying to verbally negotiate, verbally de-escalate the situation literally in the face of gunfire,” Potts said. “Eventually the suspect … agreed to surrender and came out of the home.”
Police identified the victim as Angela Lynn Mesich, 47, and said the suspect was her husband.
While on the scene, officers learned that a 12-year-old girl and a 29-year-old woman, who are sisters, were taken to the hospital after being shot in their front yard, which was on the same block. The girl was in critical condition at Hennepin Healthcare, while the woman was in stable condition.
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