Crime

Driver Hits Home in Grand Forks, Attempts to Run Away

the passenger in the car was taken to Altru Hospital for observation, no other injuries were reported

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A driver hits a house in Grand Forks and then tries to run from the accident. Just after 1:00 this afternoon, police say 22-year-old Preston Zeste of Grand Forks hit the east side of a home on 47th Avenue South and Cherry Street. Zeste and a passenger then attempted to run away. The passenger was taken to…

Shots Fired Inside Williston Restaurant

The shooting was reported shortly after 2 p.m. at Outlaws Bar & Grill.

WILLISTON, N.D. (KFGO/KEYZ) – Police are looking for a gunman who reportedly opened fire inside a restaurant Friday afternoon in Williston. The shooting was reported shortly after 2 p.m. at Outlaws Bar & Grill. There was no immediate information about injuries. Police are telling Williston residents to avoid the area around the restaurant and to shelter in place until the…

St. Paul Man Said He Was Speeding Because He Had To Go To The Bathroom

30-year-old Daniel Nunez is in the Becker County Jail.

DETROIT LAKES, MN (KFGO) – A St. Paul man faces drug and DWI charges after a traffic stop near Detroit Lakes where he told a state trooper that he was speeding because he had to go to the bathroom. 30-year-old Daniel Nunez is in the Becker County Jail. He was pulled over on Hwy. 59. The trooper says Nunez was…

Charges Filed In Moorhead Standoff

Thirty-five-year-old Blake Fitzgerald is charged with six counts, including assault with a dangerous weapon, false imprisonment, domestic assault by strangulation and terroristic threats.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KFGO) – Charges have been filed against the man involved in a nearly nine-hour standoff with police at his Moorhead home on Tuesday. Thirty-five-year-old Blake Fitzgerald is charged with six counts, including assault with a dangerous weapon, false imprisonment, domestic assault by strangulation and terroristic threats. Court documents say that after the female victim told Fitzgerald she was…

Walsh County Man Charged With Murder

Steven Aune was arrested Wednesday after shooting a 36-year-old woman at his home near Adams, North Dakota

ADAMS, ND — A woman is dead and a family member is behind bars in Walsh County and charged with her murder. 65-year-old Steven Aune was arrested Wednesday after shooting a 36-year-old woman at his home near Adams, North Dakota, near Grafton. The sheriff was called and said Aune was suicidal and had a gun. The victim was taken to the…

Mohamed Noor found guilty on 3rd-degree murder, 2nd-degree manslaughter

Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor and his legal team exit the Hennepin County Government Center on April 26, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was found guilty on third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter and not guilty on second-degree murder in the 2017 shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. The trial…

UPDATE: Moorhead Standoff Ends Peacefully

The neighborhood will be opened up very soon for residents to return home.

MOORHEAD, MN — The situation in the 1400 block of 5 St S has ended peacefully and the suspect Blake Fitzgerald, a 35-year-old Moorhead resident, is in custody on domestic assault related charges. No one was injured in this incident. The neighborhood will be opened up very soon for residents to return home. UPDATE: A man Moorhead police believe has a gun…

Fate of ex-Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor now in hands of jury

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The decision of whether or not to convict former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in the July 2017 shooting death of Australia native Justine Ruszczyk Damond now lies in the hands of the jury. The jury–12 jurors and four alternates–consists of four women and 12 men. The jury includes half-a-dozen minorities, with four born outside the U.S. including two from the Phillipines,…

Driver Facing DUI, Other Charges After Reaching Nearly 100 Near Casselton

It happened on I-94

  CASSELTON, N.D. — A driver is facing multiple charges, including a DUI, after reaching nearly 100 miles an hour in a pursuit and crash on I-94 in Casselton. Cass County deputies responded to a report of an erratic driver shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday who was swerving from fog line to fog line. Authorities say within five minutes, the vehicle…