Rochester Police

Investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy.

A woman told officers a man who she recently met had threatened to blow up her vehicle and brandished a pistol after she refused to give him a ride to the Twin Cities.

Officers searched the suspect vehicle and found an open container of alcohol and a baggie containing suspected cocaine residue.

Witnesses said there was a group of about 15 people in the parking lot who fled once the gunfire rang out.

Court documents say he returned to the apartment 10 days after the reported burglary.

Rochester has been awarded grant funding to combat drug trafficking and violent crime annually since 2019.

Police say the suspect fled the store southbound on foot.

The man told officers he then called the scammer back, who told him he had been scammed.

A friend of the victim discovered her Saturday morning.

Preliminary reports indicate the Rochester Fire Department responded to the report of a structure fire shortly before 8:15 a.m.