RED WING, Minn. – During a Sunday stand-off with police, a Red Wing man admitted to killing his girlfriend and begged police to shoot him. The details are in a criminal complaint charging Darryl Dion Nixon, 41, with murder. Here, according to the criminal complaint is what happened:
> Police responded to 1052 “Putnam Avenue about 5 p.m. after a 911 call from a woman crying for help.
> Officers found the address quiet.
> After police pounded, Nixon came to the door with gun and blood on his shirt and told officers to “shoot me.”
> Officers implored Nixon to drop the gun, but he pointed it to his head. “Just shoot me,” he said.
> Nixon stepped away from the doorway and locked it.
> Negotiations followed. Nixon told officers: “She is not OK.”
> Police sharp-shooters arrived.
> Nixon unlocked and opened the door with a gun and yelled to be shot and fired a round toward the sky.
> A sharp-shooter aimed a nonlethal round and hit Nixon.
> Nixon stumbled back inside and closed and locked the door again
> Police negotiators asked Nixon if anyone else was with him in the house. He told them that he was with his girlfriend and that she was “gone, gone, gone,.dead.”
> Asked how he knew she was dead, Nixon said: “‘Cause I shot her.”
> After hours of negotiation, Nixon put his gun down and surrendered without further incident.
The criminal complaint, filed in Goodhue County court, accused Nixon of second-degree murder with intent but not premeditation.