LITTLE MISSOURI STATE PARK — The suspect in a Bismarck homicide was found dead by apparent suicide in the Little Missouri State Park north of Killdeer early Monday morning.
Dunn County Sheriff Clay Coker said the body of Kirk Kwasniewski, 35, was found in an open-air pavilion about 50 yards from where his vehicle had been located earlier by a deputy following a 911 hangup.
At 1:09 a.m. Monday, a Bismarck woman living on the 600 block of North 22nd Street, called police to report Kwasniewski was in her home threatening her with a gun. She found her boyfriend, 30-year-old Caine Fischer, of Bismarck, dead in the home. She told police Kwasniewski had fled.
A forklift was allegedly used in an attempt to break in to an ATM at the Wells Fargo bank in west Dickinson early Wednesday morning.
A forklift was allegedly driven nearly a mile from its construction site location and used in an attempt to rob an ATM at the Wells Fargo bank early Wednesday morning in west Dickinson.
The Dickinson Police Department is investigating the destruction of the ATM and the attempted theft of its contents after an alarm was triggered at about 12:14 a.m.
No money was stolen from the ATM in the incident and police have no suspects, Sgt. Dave Wallace said.
RURAL BILLINGS COUNTY — The Billings County Sheriff’s Department has identifi ed the alleged fugitive authorities are searching for throughout western North Dakota.
The search continued Friday for Jeff Robertson, who is suspected of rolling a stolen pickup truck off U.S. Highway 85 in northeast Billings County on Thursday and then fleeing the scene.
Billings County Sheriff Pat Rummel said they have identifi ed Robertson as the suspect, though his age and city of residence is unknown. He is described as being white, and around 6-foot, 180 pounds and is balding with sandy brown hair.
The Billings County Sheriff’s Department found an employee identification card in the pickup, which it used to confirm Robertson as the suspect who allegedly exited the pickup following the accident after interviews with witnesses.
Rummel said the department has found articles of clothing believed to belong to Robertson, who allegedly stole a 1996 blue Ford F-350 in Billings, Mont., and rolled it off the highway 12 miles north of Belfield.
“We’re just trying to follow his trail to see where he went,” Rummel said.
NEAR GORHAM — Several local law enforcement agencies, including the Southwest Tactical Team, spent all of Thursday afternoon and evening searching for a man who allegedly rolled a stolen pickup truck he was driving on Highway 85 about 12 miles north of Belfield and fl ed from the scene.
The man, who as of 9:30 p.m. still hadn’t been located, is described as being white, and around 6-foot, 180 pounds with sandy brown hair. According to a witness, he was last seen wearing a red-brown plaid shirt and had an arm injury likely caused by the rollover, Billings County Sheriff Pat Rummel said.
The 1996 blue Ford F-350 pickup, which had been reported stolen in Billings, Mont., came to a rest on its side in a ditch after the rollover. According to a witness, Rummel said, the man exited the vehicle and ran into a sunflower field west of the highway near milemarker 87.
Dickinson Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting death at Century Apartments in north Dickinson at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday.
A man who was shot multiple times after a verbal altercation Sunday evening at a Dickinson apartment complex has died, the Dickinson Police Department said.
Police Chief Dustin Dassinger identified the man killed as 37-year-old David Porter in a statement Monday afternoon.
In the statement, Dassinger said Porter was shot “multiple times after a verbal confrontation with the suspect(s).” The incident remains under investigation. Porter died at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Sunday night.
The statement did not say if arrests had been made. Porter is not a Dickinson resident.
Police responded to Century Apartments on the 2100 block of 21st Street West at about 4:24 p.m. Sunday after a report of an African-American male being shot, according to statements released by the department Sunday and Monday. The shooting happened on the south side of the apartment complex, not far from the street.
Authorities are looking for a vehicle possibly involved in the shooting. It is described as a dark-colored Chrysler 300 with a model year range from 2005 to 2010. The car has out-of-state license plates and tinted windows. Anyone with information regarding the vehicle is asked to contact the Dickinson Police Department at 701-456-7759. A police officer at the scene Sunday night said that the public is not believed to be in danger.
Access to the apartment complex on 21st Street West — a well-traveled road on the north side of the city — was blocked off at Prairie Oak Drive and 10th Street West late Sunday night.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol and the police department investigated scene late into the night. A Dickinson Fire Department truck was parked along 21st Street West and used a light tower to illuminate the crime scene for investigators.
Dave Bauer of Bauer Property Management, which manages Century Apartments and has its office on the complex’s grounds, said Sunday that authorities informed him about the shooting but he didn’t have enough information to comment further.
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