PRESS RELEASE
The Salvation Army Responding to Standoff,
Officer Shooting in Mahnomen
February 18, 2009 – The Salvation Army of Fargo, N.D. is responding in the north-central Minnesota town of Mahnomen, where an officer was shot early this morning and a suspect remained holed up in a trailer home most of the day.
State officials called on The Salvation Army at 1:30 p.m. to provide food and hydration services to more than 100 emergency responders, said Captain Adam Moore, who is serving less than three blocks from the scene.
“We will stay until the last law enforcement team leaves,” Moore said.
According to The Forum newspaper of Fargo-Moorehead: Christopher Dewey, a Mahnomen County sheriff’s deputy, is in critical condition after he was shot twice while investigating reports of gunshots this morning. Police SWAT teams later surrounded a trailer home occupied by two armed suspects. One of the suspects surrendered earlier today.
During a 4 p.m. news conference, Moore learned the second suspect has also surrendered.
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