Crime & Safety
Professor Edward Ward ID'd As Victim Of ‘Random' St. Cloud Shooting
Officers were called to the 2600 block of Island View Drive early Sunday morning, where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.
June 21, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — St. Cloud police say the shooting death of a college professor was a random act.
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Officers were called to the 2600 block of Island View Drive early Sunday morning, where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. They rushed him to the St. Cloud Hospital, where he later died.
Police later arrested 45-year-old Jason Robert Beckman of Duluth, and they said he admitted to shooting the victim.
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