ROLLIGSTONE, Minn. – A Rollingstone man sitting in his house on Main Street told deputies he heard two shots frm tje street , a front window shattering, and bullets whizzing by his head. This was about 11:30 p.m. Despite the dark, deputies found bullet casings in the street — and also at a second house next door and a third house down the street on Speltz Drive. There were no injuries. Deputies said that surveillance video showed a dark vehicle but they had few other clues. There was not any apparent common denominator linking the targeted houses, deputies said. Sheriff Ron Ganrude has offered a Crime Stopper reward for s tips leading to arrests. The attacks were in the 100 block of Main Street and the 23000 block of Speltz Drive. In all, deputes recovered five casings.

$500 REWARD

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.  –  A Bloomer woman   died after a jet ski crash after sunset on Lake Wissota. Elle Jo Kramschuster, age 24, died at a Chippewa Falls hospital. A person on a second jet ski was injured. Kramschustee was a 2023 graduate of the University Wisconsin-LaCrosse with a major in business communication.

WINONA, Minn. — Police negotiated an armed man out of his house after establishing a 16-officer perimeter and demanding his surrender. Henry Clay Minter Lamkin III, age 46, came out after an hour and was arrested without resistance. This was about 3:55 p.m. near Mark and Cummings streets, a normally tranquil neighborhood near the Cotter soccer fields. Police had been called to a sidewalk disturbance in which witnesses said Lamkin had been abusive and vulgar and brandished a handgun. When police arrived, Lamkin retreated inside his house, then reappeared outside momentarily with a handgun, and went back inside.   Officers called for back-up. After the stand-off ended, police found an arsenal inside Lamkin’s house – a dozen soft-pellet air guns, replica grenade launchers, and an AR-15. Officers said the AR-15 was never brandished. Charges included:

> Assault with a dangerous weapon;

> Violent threats.

> Disorderly conduct.

> Obstruction f legal processes.

> Flight from police

Officers said it was apparent that Limkin was having a mental health crisis.

WINONA, Minn. – Police arrested a Marion Street man who had holed up in his house to stave off officers the previous night. Police decided against knocking down his door. Instead they delayed the arrest until inevitably he would show himself. He did. They did. The arrest was uneventful.

 Earlier: His day of protest began lying on railroad tracks

WINONA, Minn. – Police found a 17-year-old girl slumped drunk in a running car at Dick’s Marina on Latsch Island. Once she was roused, her blood-alcohol level tested at 0.13% –1-1/2 times the state threshold for impairment. Police said she smelled drunk and admtted imbibing. This was about dawn.

LEROY, Minn. – A 90-year-old man was found dead inside a burning rural house before dawn. A woman was pulled out alive and taken 38 miles to a Rochester hospital. Fillmore County authorities declined to release the victims’ names until family were notified. The fire call was about 3:55 a.m. in the 13000 block of 111th Avenue about six miles northeast of LeRoy. Numerous fire crews responded, including volunteers from across the Iowa border in Chester. The cause of the fire was not determined immediately.

WINONA, Minn. – Police stopped Christopher Michael Gunn, 52, of Winona, who was driving without taillights at 1:28 a.m. The odors of alcohol emanated from his window, the arresting ifficer said. This was at Second and Wilson streets on the Near West Side. Roadside sobriety tests exercises didn’t go well for Gunn At jail his blood-alcohol level tested at 0.09%, roughly 15% more than tolerated under state law.

WINONA, Minn. – With her blood-alcohol level rising, a Winona woman was booked for drunken driving. Peyton Taylor Bundy, 28, blew 0.15% when stopped in the West End about 11:45 p.m. A little later at jail her level had reached 0.l6%. On the spot the arresting officer had put Bundy through roadside sobriety exercises. She failed, consistent for anyone whose blood-alcohol is double the allowable state maximum.

Bundy. Arrest was at Mark and South Baker streets.

Softball: Saint Mary’s 4, UW-Whitewater 0

Softball: Saint Mary’s 7, UW-Whitewater 1

WAUKON, Iowa. — An Iowa woman was killed when the all-terrain vehicle on which she was a passenger hit a deer and rolled on its side into an embankment. Heather Jones, 33, of Raymond, was pinned underneath. Jones was dead at the scene, said  Allamakee County deputies. This was southeast of Waukon toward Waterville. The driver, Jason Matthias, 33, of Cedar Falls, was injured less severely. The accident was about 9 p.m. on Paint Creek Drive..

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Everyone in a southeast Rochester house escaped safely after an attached garage caught fire. Heavy flames already were through the garage roof when fire crews arrived. The occupants had fled and were standing outside.  This was about10 p.m. on Bragg Lane Southeast.

Before and after. Images: Rochester Fire Department

WINONA, Minn. – Two Rochester men being pursued on a shoplifting complaint from Walmart were arrested leaving town. One of them, police said, was carrying a 9-millimeter  ghost gun and ammunition.  The arrests were about 7:10 p.m. at the U.S. Highway 14 intersection to Rochester on the West End. That was three miles from Walmart. Arrested were:

STOCKTON, Minn. – Somebody ripped apart three portable coops in which brothers in a religious order at the Stockton Hill semnaryy keep their laying hens. Winona County deputies were told that no chickens in the sustainability project were lost. Other coops with 65 birds were unmolested. The make-shift coops are built of light timber and chicken wire. The damaged coops together were valued at 2,000.

MAUSTON, Wis. — A man convicted of murder in a love triangle in which the victim’s corpse was set afire, Donald Dahlberg, 48, will go to prison forever. Judge Paul Curran pronounced the sentence. Parole will not be possible, the judge said. After sentencing, however, Dahlberg’s attorney filed a pro forma appeal of the conviction and sentence.

Earlier: Jury on Necedah murder: Guilty on 15 counts

Dahlberg. The rest of his days behind bars.

MONEY CREEK Minn. – A rural man has returned home to finish mending from a dirt bike accident caused by a feral cat crossing a trail. The crash occurred about 3:15 p.m. on Sunday near the 32000 block of State Highway 76. Deputies were told that the man’s father, who was driving a side-by-side four-wheeler, stopped suddenky  to avoid the cat. His son, following on the dirt bike, swerved and lost control and overturned, They were 3-1/2 miles from home near the Houston County line. The son, in shoulder pain, was taken 35 miles to a LaCrosse hospital.

WINONA, Minn. – Marian is one of Winona’s shortest streets – along the Canadian Pacific mainline beyond the Welch Aquatic Center on the West End. It’s a quiet and leafy residential block. For police a long  saga began Thursday about 11:35 a.m. with a call. A man was postate on the CP tracks in front of a train. This was on the tracks behind Marian Street:

> 11:35 a.m. A train crew reported a man lying on the right-of-way. The train managed to halt in time. The man ran off. Located by police, Perry Scott Topness , age 42, said he was protesting train noise that kept him awake all night.  He was intoxicated, police said.

> 12:08 p.m.  The first of 11 angry and incoherent calls were made to the emergency police dispatch line. The rants included police inaction about the trains. The calls were abusive. The caller berated dispatchers as “a bunch of cunts.” Told to stop calling, he didn’t. Dispatch logs showed 11 calls over 154 minutes.

> 12:58 p.m. Between the calls police said that Perry called a friend to help move his broken-down  car off the street into his driveway. When the friend arrived, he said, Perry charged out of the house and swung at him repeatedly.The friend called police but said he didn’t want to press charges and left.

> 9:42 p.m. Police were called back to Marian Street. Neighbors said Topness had been at their house and had threatened to kill them. By the time police arrived, Topness had gone back to his place and didn’t respond to knocks on the door. The officers retreated. Why risk a confrontation? Figuring that Topness would have to come out eventually. They kept an eye on the place, in the 1100 block of Marian. They also began extra patrols in the neighborhood.

Tranquility on Marian. The morning after. Image: Steve Lunde