GLENDORADO, Minn. – Five police officers were shot and wounded in this rural area northeast of St. Cloud. Three officers were evacuated to a St. Cloud hospital 20 miles away and two to a hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale 60 miles away. First reports were that the officers’ injuries were non-life-threatening. Details on the shooting were scant. A police scanner channel about 7 a.m. picked up the sound of gunfire followed by a message: “Officer down.” Benton County Sheriff Troy Heck called it a ‘critical incident.” Armored police vehicles and officers from many police agencies converged at a quickly assembled command center about a mile from where it was thought the shooting occurred. The site was a rural house and a cluttered yard with a large pole barn.
