{"id":296492,"date":"2025-11-17T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296492\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:54:13","slug":"deputy-shot-suspect-dead-in-cass-county-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/296492\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy shot, suspect dead in Cass County officer-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WALKER, MINN. (Valley News Live) &#8211; A Cass County sheriff\u2019s deputy was shot and a male suspect was killed Sunday evening during an exchange of gunfire following a foot pursuit in rural Walker, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident began at 4:37 p.m. when the Cass County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a 911 call reporting gunshots heard near residences in the area of Old Agency Drive and Onigum Road Northwest (County Road 13) in Turtle Lake Township, Sheriff Bryan Welk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies responded to the area and began investigating. A short time later, deputies attempted to contact a male subject walking in the 8000 block of Onigum Road Northwest. The man fled on foot, prompting a pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the chase, an exchange of gunfire occurred between the suspect and deputies. One deputy was shot and airlifted to a Fargo hospital for treatment. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Body-worn cameras were active during the incident, Welk said. The deputies involved have been placed on critical incident leave pending the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/2025\/11\/17\/minnesota-bca-investigating-use-of-force-incident-walker\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.valleynewslive.com\/2025\/11\/17\/minnesota-bca-investigating-use-of-force-incident-walker\/\">The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension<\/a> has taken over the investigation and is leading the case. The BCA will release additional information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The condition of the wounded deputy was not immediately released. The identity of the deceased suspect has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KVLY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALKER, MINN. (Valley News Live) &#8211; A Cass County sheriff\u2019s deputy was shot and a male suspect was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,2408,450,451,154700,4934,4932,4931,3,4933,4935,452,453,154699,4930],"class_list":{"0":"post-296492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breaking-news-video","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-kx4","13":"tag-live-speeches","14":"tag-live-updates","15":"tag-live-video","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-press-conference","18":"tag-real-time-coverage","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-valle","22":"tag-video-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}