ELGIN, Minn. — A shelter-in-place order was issued in a rural area near this far southern Wabasha County community near the Olmsted and Winonna County lines. Sheriff Rodney Bartsch said a perimeter had been established to find the driver of a stolen pickup truck who hit another car and disappeared on foot in the cornfields. The shelter-in-place order sealed a one-mile perimeter created by Wabasha County deputies, State Patrol troopers and officers from other policing agencies. Drones and search dogs were mobilized. This sequence of events, gathered from police and other sources, is believed what led to the shelter-in-place place order:
> 7 a.m. A 911 caller reported a suspicious pickup truck along a road west of Elgin with the driver slumped over the wheel.
> As deputies arrived, the truck, a 2018 Dodge Ram, drove off. Police ascertained that the truck had been stolen.
> 7:31 a.m.: The Ram driver, Drew Douglas Wiskow Davis, age 29, of Rochester, collided head-on with a 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan minivan a mile east of Elgin at County Road 25 and 275th Avenue. The minivan driver, Peterson Roy Peterson, 42, of Rochester, was injured and taken 18 miles to a Rochester hospital. His injuries appeared sustainable.
> The Ram driver grabbed a bag from the vehicle and fled on foot.
> A nearby rural resident called 911 that someone had broken into the house and then taken off into a nearby outbuilding.
> Deputies established a one-mile perimeter and brought in K-9 search dogs and drones to search.