Prosecutors filed a more serious charge this week against a man accused of a hit-and-run crash that killed an 82-year-old woman doing yard work near her home in Mounds View. After taking another look at the case, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office added a third-degree murder charge against Donald Jerome Harris, 62, due to the […]
Twin Cities man arrested for allegedly killing wife in 2010
May 19, 2021
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Police on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of killing his wife in St. Paul more than a decade ago.
Nicholas Firkus, 38, of Mounds View, was interviewed at police headquarters after his arrest and was booked into the Ramsey County Jail. He has been charged but details are not expected to be released until Thursday when Firkus is scheduled to make his first court appearance, Ramsey County Attorney’s Office spokesman Dennis Gerhardstein said.
Firkus is accused of killing 25-year-old Heidi Firkus on April 25, 2010. Nicholas Firkus told police that someone broke into their home about 6:30 a.m. that day and grabbed his shotgun, after which the two struggled over the weapon. Firkus said the gun fired, killing his wife, and he was injured in the leg when it went off a second time.
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Anthony Trifiletti, 25, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Douglas Cornelius Lewis, 39.
The jury got the case Thursday afternoon and concluded deliberations at 7 p.m. Friday after declaring it was hung, said Dennis Gerhardstein, spokesman for the Ramsey County Attorney s Office.
Trifiletti remains in custody with bail conditions unchanged. Gerhardstein said Monday that his office will decide in the coming days whether to pursue a new trial.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) | Dec 21, 2020 | News | 14
In the months since riots erupted in Minneapolis this summer, state and federal court documents have told a story that largely contradicts the widely disseminated narratives from Republican and Democratic politicians of what happened in that chaotic week.
President Donald Trump blamed the violence in Minneapolis on radical leftists, saying “antifa” led the riots. Gov. Tim Walz warned that Minneapolis and St. Paul were “under assault” by an “organized attempt to destabilize civil society.” Other public officials said waves of out-of-state agitators descended on the Twin Cities and caused the bulk of the violence.
But documents in dozens of state and federal criminal charges, reviewed by the Star Tribune, present a much more complicated narrative of splintered and disorganized crowds with no single goal or affiliation, and in some cases contradictory motives, that vastly outnumbered police and took advantage of a law