Deputies said they found a message scrawled in yellow marker as they investigated the man who engaged in a shootout with law enforcement in western Minnesota last week. The message, written on a door with a smashed window, said “Sorry I.W.,” court records say.
The initials belong to a relative whose shotgun was allegedly stolen by Kasey Paul Willander, 27, prior to a 15-hour standoff with law enforcement at his father’s home near Clarkfield, Minn., 15 miles south of Montevideo.
Willander faces a felony charge of burglary while possessing a weapon, said a criminal complaint with new details on the standoff filed Friday. It is the first charge to come out of the incident.
Willander barricaded himself inside a relative’s home on the afternoon of Sept. 15 and fired at law enforcement at least two times before being shot and arrested the next morning, a statement from the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office said earlier this week.
Eight members of law enforcement fired at Willander during the siege, which left him hospitalized but in stable condition at HCMC. No one else was injured during the incident, state authorities said Thursday.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will review body-worn camera footage as part of an investigation into the use of force by law enforcement, a BCA statement said.
Law enforcement on Friday accused Willander of stealing the long gun used during the shootout from his great uncle, Irving Willander.
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