APPLE VALLEY Police in Apple Valley believe that fireworks caused the Fourth of July death of a local man.
Officers received a report of a dead body in the backyard of a home Sunday and discovered the victim alone with music playing loudly.
Investigators think the man was holding a mortar tube used to launch fireworks and one shot out the bottom and struck him in the head.
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Police said the victim had been drinking while lighting off fireworks.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner s office will identify the victim and determine his official cause of death.
Apple Valley Police Investigating Fireworks Fatality
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