GLENDORADO, Minn. — Five police officers who were shot and wounded in a drug raid last week were inside the house when they were fired upon, according to the criminal complaint against the Glendorado man who has been charged in the case. The officers survived, as also did Karl Holmberg, 64, who has been charged with attempted murder of lice officers. Based n investigator interviews, police camcorders and other sources, this is the sequence beng alleged by the prosecutor Karl Schmidt, the county attorney:
> About 7:10 a.m. on October 12: Members of a drug task force backed up by sheriff’s deputies arrived at 225 190th Avenue, which has a rural Princeton postal address, to serve narcotics search warrant.
> Holmberg woke his wife: “They’re here.” She looked at a home security video monitor and saw police outside. Holmberg said: “It’s my day to die.”
> Members of a drug task force accompanied by sheriff’s deputies approached the front door of the single-story house. Following “knock and announce” protocols, they shouted: “Police. Search warrant” multiple times. They opened the door and entered the living room. Somebody shouted: “Don’t do it. Don’t do it.” The audio on a police camcorder video is muffled.
> Holmberg fired blindly from the closed bedroom door with a .223 rifle. The officers scrambled to retreat. An emergency call went out to police dispatchers: “Officer down.”
> The five wounded officers have not been identified publicly because they work undercover. Their names are not listed in the complaint.
Officer A was shot in the right arm and sustained substantial injuries. He was airlifted 60 miles to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, a Minneapolis suburb, where he remaines hospitalized..
Officer B was shot in the chest and hip He also was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center and remains hospitalized.
Officer C was shot in a hand. He also was airlifted to North Memorial Medical Center and released that night.
Officer D and Officer E also were also shot, They were taken 20 miles by ambulance to a St. Cloud and were later released.
Officer F was in the house but was not struck.
> Holmberg asked his wife to join the fight. She refused. He called her a coward.
> Police set up a command post a mile away at the Glendorado Lutheran Church. Dozens of agencies responded, some with armored vehicles. A perimeter was reinforced around the house. Some vehicles and officers obscured themselves behind tall corn in a field. Others, closer the house, shielded themselves behind vehicles that they had drive in to block a driveway. A State Patrol helicopter arrived and circled. So did news helicopters from the Twin Cities. News reporters on the ground were kept a few blocks miles away, as were curious neighbors.
Command center. Officers from more than a dozen police agencies converged to help. Their vehicles lined a nearby road at the Glenerado Lutheran Church
Finale
> About 10.45 a.m., fter 3-1/2 hours of negotiation, Holmberg came out of the house in a red robe and approached officers but at a distance. He returned to the house and then came back out. He was shirtless in an apparent signal that he was unarmed and surrendering. He sat down in a lawn chair.
> When Holmberg stood, a police sharpshooter fired a nonlethal projectile and hit him. He stumbled at impact. A K-9 was unleashed to bring Holmberg down, Officers rushed to corral Holmberg. They moved him away from the house to the armored vehicle in the driveway to await a med-evac helicopter. He was flown to North Memorial Medical Center, to treated for his wounds.\
> Holmberg’s wife, Dorine Kay Hilmberg, 62, inside the house during the whole ordeal, was brought out uninjured. She was taken o a St. Cloud hiospital to be checked over.
> Inside the house police found multiple handguns, a shotgun, a rifle, and a weapon dropped by one of the officers. Shell casings were recovered from the bedroom and the living room, including a .223 shell.
> At the Robbinsdale hospital Holmberg acknowledged to investigators that he heard the task force members announce themselves but did not feel they had a right to be there. Holmberg said the officers attempted to enter his bedroom. Shots were exchanged. This apparently was when he took a bullet in a foot.
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Holmberg. In red robe, hands up.
Returns. Shirtless, shivering in cold.
Struck down. By non-lethal projectile that disintegrates in a green puff on impact.