On This Date in Minnesota History: November 29

November 29, 2012 – Responding to a welfare check request, Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker “was fatally shot after getting out of his squad car near”¹ Winners Bar.  The man who lived above the bar, the man Decker was coming to check on, was arrested but later released after the Sterns County prosecutor said they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him.²

“One month later a second suspect committed suicide as investigators attempted to question him during the follow up investigation. The gun used to murder Officer Decker was found on property the suspect had access to.”<sup>3

1</sup>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/tom-decker-dead-cold-spring-minnesota_n_2218662.html

²Star Tribune; Minneapolis, Minn.; “Details of slaying scene emerge”; Dec. 7, 2012; pp B1 & B7.

³http://www.odmp.org/officer/21550-police-officer-tom-decker

Tom Decker
http://www.odmp.org/officer/21550-police-officer-tom-decker

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