MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
@ MPR News, Feb. 9 Updated 6:45 p.m. HAS PHOTOS. VIDEO & AUDIO
Multiple people were shot Tuesday morning at an Allina Health clinic in Buffalo, Minn., northwest of the Twin Cities, killing one person and injuring four others. Police arrested a local man they said was well-known to them and has a history of conflict.
One of the five victims who were hospitalized following the shooting has died at HCMC in Minneapolis, the hospital’s spokesperson said Tuesday evening. Three who were taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minn., remained in stable but critical condition on Tuesday evening, and the fifth victim had been discharged.
Wright County Sheriff Sean Deringer identified the man taken into custody as Gregory Paul Ulrich, 67, of Buffalo. No motive was given for the shootings.Court documents, though, show that in 2018 Ulrich was ordered to stay away from the clinic and one of the physicians who practices there. The case was dismissed in 2020 because Ulrich was found to be mentally incompetent. A pre-sentencing document recommended against allowing him to use or possess firearms [....]
Deringer said “suspicious devices” were found in the clinic and at a nearby motel where Ulrich was allegedly staying. Neither he nor Budke would say more. Earlier in the day, though, Gov. Tim Walz described them as improvised explosive devices. The Minneapolis bomb squad was on-site at the clinic in the early afternoon [....]
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the St. Paul office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives both said they were part of the investigation. Police descended on the clinic following a 911 call just before 11 a.m. Deringer described the aftermath as a “a horrible looking scene. Nearby schools were locked down temporarily following the shooting [....]