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Article: Man who took board hostage was shot 7 times; Police fatally shot the Little Falls man after he pulled a gun at a Morrison County Board meeting Tuesday.(NEWS)

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June 27, 2008
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Byline: RICHARD MERYHEW; STAFF WRITER

The man who held more than a half-dozen Morrison County officials hostage at gunpoint Tuesday died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to a preliminary autopsy report released Thursday.

Gordon K. Wheeler, 60, of Little Falls, Minn., was shot seven times by police, according to the Ramsey County medical examiner.

No one else was injured in the shooting, which took place in the County Board room of the Morrison County Courthouse about 10 minutes after Wheeler took several commissioners and officials hostage at the end of a meeting.

Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent for the Minnesota Bureau of ...

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