WINONA, Minn. – Bail was set at$500,000 for an Alaska man accused of an unprovoked stabbing at a Winona motor repair shop. Stig Ure, 25, appeared before visiting Judge Kevin Lund in a video hook-up from jail. A further appearance was ordered two weeks out. The criminal complaint presented to Judge Lund alleged these previously unreported details of the crime and the subsequent manhunt:
> Ure had been released from an inpatient substance abuse rehab in Washington in June.
> Ure had been at LaCrosse hospital earlier in the day and left on foot and called his mother in Caledonia to pick him up on the Poke between LaCrosse and LaCrescent, where she met Ure and a mental health worker. They proceeded then to the Winona hospital.
> Earlier in the day a pocketknife had been confiscated from Ure. He may still have had a pen which police suspected was the stabbing weapon.
> Ure had been hanging around at Gerard’s Small Engine Repair shop oo Junction Street about 45 minutes. As closing time approached, was told him he had to leave.
> Ure had a dark grey pen his possession when arrested four hours later.
> Ure remained uncooperative while being booked at jail. It was impossible, officers said, to get a standard pre-incarceration mug shot until the next day.
Ure. Accused of stabbing an employee in a shop. Also of attempting to west a gun from a police officer in a later tussle at hospital.