Lights out at 10. All Mankato Kwik Trips are closing at 10 p.m. in case the stabbing was not a single isolated incident.
Store surveillance cams led to apprehension
MANKATO, Minn. – Police arrested a Mankato man in the fatal stabbing of a Kwik Trip worker overnight. Video surveillance was a key in identifying the assailant as Michael Lee Miller, age 28, police said. The assailANt had fled after the stabbing Miller was arrested at his home without resistance. He was booked at818 a.m. for second-degree murder. Police Chief Ross Gullickson has asked the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to assist in the investigation. The chief said there was no reason to suspect any further danger to the public. In LaCrosse at Kwik Trip headquarters, the company ordered all eight of its Mankato locations to suspend operations from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. as a precaution.
Miller. Held on tentative second-degree murder charge.