WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a man hiding in reeds and rushes near the Gundersen Clinic on Highway 61, ending a four-hour manhunt. Arrested was Stig Thomas Ure, 25. The arrest was about 9:30 p.m. near the Gilmore Creek inlet into Lake Winona.
The man was booked for assault with a dangerous weapon and disarming a police officer. Details of the arrest were not clear immediately. This much was known:
> About 5:20 p.m. a man assaulted a shop clerk at 250 Junction Street with a sharp object and fled on foot.
> Although the clerk’s injuries were non-life threatening, police were concerned about the seriousness of the attack and requested residents in the area to shelter in place.
> By mistake, at least one emergency platform activated by police sent out an inaccurate reference to an“active shooter.”
> News media calls to police from LaCrosse, Rochester and the Twin Cities went unanswered or were cut off: “We’re too busy.” Stations dispatched reporter teams to Winona.
> At one point, sites that track police communication for the public received an usually heavy volume. One site had 1,800 hits.
> Eventually police corrected the errant shelter-in-place request: “There was no active shooter.”
> About 9:30 p.m. a citizen who received the emergency alerts reported a suspicious man crawling in the weeds along the 1100 block of Highway 61.
> Ure was located and taken to jail.
Ure. Police posted this latter-day wanted poster online in asking for public help to locate Ure.