Saturday, June 26, 2004

Askov, Minnesota



From the Minneapolis Star Tribune of June 23, 2004



A more representative headline would be "Armed civilians capture suspected shooter".

Teen held in father's shooting death



For more than four hours Tuesday, authorities searched this small town and the surrounding woods and prairie of Pine County looking for a boy who allegedly shot and killed his father earlier in the morning.



For more than four hours, the word was out that a 15-year-old boy was on the run.



So when the teenager appeared, armed with a gun, near Hwy. 23 just south of town early Tuesday afternoon, the three men working at a nearby auto shop -- Matt Gebhart, Scott Jorgensen and Brian Volk -- knew what to do.



They got their guns.



Minutes later, they surrounded the boy and talked him into dropping the gun. Deputies arrived a short time later and arrested the boy, identified by acquaintances as Dallas Wright, in connection with the shooting of his father, Norman R. Wright Jr., 47, on the front lawn of the family's home.



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