Small-town Minnesota hotel shooting kills clerk and 2 possible guests, including suspect, police say

By TRISHA AHMED
Associated Press/Report for America

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say a shooting at a small-town Minnesota hotel has killed an employee and two possible guests. Cloquet police Chief Derek Randall spoke about the shooting at a news conference Tuesday. He says police found a 22-year-old clerk with a gunshot wound on Monday inside a Super 8. She died later at a hospital. Police also found a 35-year-old man dead inside a vehicle in the parking lot with gunshot wounds. They also found a 32-year-old man dead outside on the hotel’s property. He appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities have used hotel surveillance video to confirm he was the shooter.