BCA details latest officer-involved Mpls. police shooting
Updated 4:05 p.m.| Posted 1:35 p.m.
State authorities on Thursday named the Minneapolis officers involved in Monday's fatal confrontation with a suspect police say was shot while stabbing another man.
Officers Eric Malmberg and David Robins were placed on standard administrative leave while the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigates the shooting. The agency identified the man killed as Raul Salvador Marquez Heraldes, 50, of Minneapolis.
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The officers responded at about 5:13 a.m. Monday to a 911 call of a person with a weapon in an apartment building at 2120 Minnehaha Ave. S. When they arrived, they found Marquez Heraldes in the building foyer armed with a knife, the BCA said in a statement detailing findings from the preliminary investigation.
"As officers opened the building's front door, Marquez Heraldes lunged at them with the knife," the agency said. "The officers retreated. From outside, they could see that Marquez Heraldes had entered an apartment. The officers followed him into the apartment and located him in the bathroom."
The officers attempted to speak with Marquez Heraldes through the door, but soon began hearing screams for help from another person inside the bathroom. The officers forced entry into the bathroom and found Marquez Heraldes in the process of stabbing a man. Officers Malmberg and Robins fired their weapons, striking Marquez Heraldes," the BCA said.
Marquez Heraldes struggled with the officers, injuring Robins' hand, officials added. Marquez Heraldes was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center where he later died. The medical examiner named the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds.
The stabbing victim, Alan Robert Coleman, 63, lives in the apartment where the incident occurred remains hospitalized at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale. Robins was treated at HCMC and released.
Malmberg has been with the Minneapolis Police Department for three years, Robins two years, the BCA said, adding that its investigation remains active and ongoing.
Once its probe is completed, the BCA will turn its findings over to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office for review.