MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – Bomb threats were made to homes owned by Brian Thompson and his wife Paulette as news spread that he had been shot dead on a New York sidewalk en route to a business meeting. Local police searched the addresses and determined the threats were hoaxes. Police didn’t identify the homes as the Thompsons, but WCCO news reporters quickly correlated the addresses through property records. Brian and Paulette have separate addresses and have BEEN living apart.

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