WAHPETON, N.D. (KFGO) – Wahpeton Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a man there Monday night.
Chief Matthew Anderson said 33-year-old Anthony Kruger, of Breckenridge, Minnesota was taken into custody Friday. He is accused of shooting 40-year-old Jeremiah Medenwald in a car across the street from Stern Sports Arena.
According to police, officers were called to the area on a report of shots fired shortly after 7 p.m. Monday and found Medenwald outside a car across the street. The officers began life-saving measures. Medenwald was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Breckenridge where he died.
There was a youth hockey game taking place at the arena at the time of the shooting. The North Dakota State College of Science campus community was under a shelter-in-place alert for over two hours as a result of the shooting.
Anderson said Kruger became a suspect Friday and was taken into custody without incident.
The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation led the investigation. SEMCA Narcotics Task Force, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, DEA, and North Dakota SLIC assisted.
