BYRON, Minn. – A Byron man was arrested without resistance after a report that a man with an assault rifle was headed to a Northwest Side house to shoot and kill people. About the same time police received a call from a woman that the man already was inside her house. Deputies got the woman and others out, evacuated nearby houses, and set up a perimeter. The intruder apparently was passed out drunk in a bedroom, but woke up to a police bullhorn to come out. He did. Arrested and taken 12 miles to the Olmsted County jail in Rochester. was Andrew Gerhardt, 36, of Byron. From the initial call to the arrest was 9:19 p.m. to 12:50 a.m. Confiscated were an AR-15 and a shotgun.
Gerhardt. Records show that Gerhardt a felon prohibited from possessing firearms. The arrest was in the 100 block of Ninth Street Northwest.