Sunday, October 18, 2015

Sheriff's deputy shot and killed at Minnesota hospital; suspect dead

Oct 18 (Reuters) - A sheriff's appointee was shot and killed on Sunday after a man he was guarding at a Minnesota healing facility ... thumbnail 1 summary

Oct 18 (Reuters) - A sheriff's appointee was shot and killed on Sunday after a man he was guarding at a Minnesota healing facility got his firearm amid a battle, powers said.

The suspect later passed on after a healing facility gatekeeper stifled him with a Taser, powers said.

Aitkin County Sheriff's Investigator Steven Sandberg, 60, had been guarding Danny Leroy Hammond, 50, who was being examined regarding a household episode, powers said.

Hammond escaped from his healing facility quaint little inn the officer's gun amid a battle, Drew Evans, administrator of the state's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said at a news gathering.

Hammond, who was not cuffed at the time, was stifled by a healing center security watchman utilizing a Taser, powers said. Hammond got to be lethargic and later passed on.

A few shots were discharged amid the episode that occurred on a fifth-floor therapeutic unit of the healing facility at around 5:15 a.m. nearby time (1015 GMT).

No other healing center patients or staff were harmed amid the shooting, which was bound to a patient room at St. Cloud Hospital, situated around 60 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

Powers did not promptly give points of interest on the local occurrence.

Hammond had not been captured, but rather was a suspect in a residential related occurrence who was getting treatment at the clinic. He was being observed at the doctor's facility's solicitation.

Sandberg was a 24-year veteran with the Aitkin Sheriff's office.

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