STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) - The Latest on the indictment of a Minnesota sheriff’s deputy on a manslaughter charge in the shooting death of a 23-year-old man (all times local):
3 p.m.
A Minnesota sheriff’s deputy has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of a 23-year-old man last year.
Brian Krook entered his plea Wednesday in Washington County before a courtroom filled with law enforcement support. Krook was indicted by a grand jury last week on a manslaughter charge in the April 2018 death of Benjamin Evans.
Krook was among officers responding to a report of a suicidal man with a gun in Lake Elmo, about 19 miles northeast of Minneapolis. Evans, who had been working as an emergency medical technician, died in the ensuing confrontation.
Details of what happened have been cloaked by the secrecy of the grand jury process. Sherburne County Judge Mary Yunker apologized to Krook for the indictment becoming public last week, blaming a court error.
She set bail at $10,000 but said Krook would be freed without bond if he surrendered his passport.
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6:27 a.m.
The Washington County sheriff’s deputy indicted for manslaughter in the shooting death of a 23-year-old Lake Elmo man last year is due in court.
Brian Krook is scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon. The 31-year-old deputy killed Benjamin Evans in April 2018 after he and others responded to a report of a suicidal man with a gun in Lake Elmo, which is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) northeast of Minneapolis.
Krook becomes the third Minnesota law officer charged in an on-duty killing in recent years. St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter after fatally shooting Philando Castile during a 2016 traffic stop. Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor was charged and convicted of third-degree murder in the 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
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