EAGLE LAKE, Minn. – A state trooper responding to a 911 call found a 59-year-old man critically wounded by a firearm. The man was taken six miles to the Mankato hospital, then airlifted 80 miles to a Level 1 trauma unit in Rochester. Reportedly the wound was to an arm. Blue Earth County Sheriff Jeff Wersal declined to release the victim’s name or details of what happened. It was believed, however, that the 911 call, about 4:20 p.m., came from the victim’s son and that the son said he had shot his father. The son was detained. Initial reports varied on whether the son was a juvenile.
