CANNON FALLS, Minn. – In an apparent suicide, a driver shot himself to death in the Mayo hospital parking lot in Cannon Falls after a police chase that began 30 miles away in Dodge County. Dead was Adam Michael Lawrence, 48, of Cannon Falls. Police said Lawrence had jammed his vehicle into reverse during a traffic stop and rammed a squad. This was near the Casey’s convenience store in West Concord about 7:45 p.m. The officer in the squad car, David Curtis Myrom, 40, of Dodge Center, was injured and taken 20 miles to the Owatonna hospital. His condition was described as non-life threatening. A witness followed Lawrence’s vehicle, a 2005 Ford Explorer, as be drove off and called 911. Deputies spotted he vehicle and gave chase. Other deputies deployed stop sticks to no effect. The pursuit continued into Goodhue County and ended about 8:05 at the Cannon Falls hospital. As officers approached Lawrence’s vehicle, they said, he pulled a gun and shot himself. Dodge County Sheriff Scott Rose sad no firearms were discharged by officers. The ramming, in West Concord, was north of the Concord Street intersection with State Highway 56. The Explorer’s airbag did not deploy in the impact.
Why here? Not immediately clear was whether Lawrence was himself inured in the ramming incident and chose therefore to head for the Mayo emergency room in Cannon Falls.