WILLMAR, Minn. – A police officer, responding to a downtown altercation, shot and wounded a man reportedly coming at him with a knife. The officer, whose name was not released immediately, told superiors that he was interviewing a man who had called 911 that he was being attacked when, suddenly, the other nan charged out of a doorway wielding a knife. The officer said he ordered the man to halt and backed fof. The man, he said, kept coming. The officer fired. Although wounded, the man fled. The officer and others tackled him a block away. They administered first-aid until an ambulance arrived. The man was taken the Willmar hospital, a Trauma Level 3 facility, then transferred 60 miles to a more comprehensive care center in St. Cloud. This incident was about 8:10 a.m. near Fourth Street Southwest and Litchfield Avenue Southwest. The area was cordoned off for the rest of the day until independent investigates arrived from St. Paul, as is routine in police shootings.
Note: This was a separate incident from the death of a man January 29 in Willmar after being disabled by a stun-gun fired by a Kandiyohi County deputy: Willmar man dies after taser shot by police