Full Notification

For immediate release 
January 8, 2024
 
Early Evening Shooting Leaves Three Dead
 
On Monday, January 8, 2024, at approximately 6:30 p.m. An employee of the Super 8 hotel in Cloquet called 911 to report they'd found another hotel employee who looked like she'd been attacked.
 
Cloquet police responded and found a 22-year-old female with a gunshot wound. She was transported to St. Luke's Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
 
As officers investigated, they found a 35-year-old male victim in a car in the hotel parking lot. The man was deceased from a gunshot wound. 
 
They later found a 32-year-old male outside on the hotel property who was deceased from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to him. Officers reviewed surveillance video from the hotel and confirmed that this deceased male was the suspect.
 
Identities of the three deceased are not yet being released pending notification of family.

There is no information yet on a motive for the shootings or if there was any connection between the suspect and either of the victims. Crime scene investigators are actively processing the scene. Police are confident there is no further threat to the public.
 
The Cloquet Police Department extends its sympathies to the families of the victims in this tragic case. 
 
Thank you to the public for cooperating in sheltering in place earlier this evening while events unfolded. 
 
Further information will be released tomorrow as it is confirmed. A news conference will be held Tuesday at Cloquet City Hall, 101 14th Street in Cloquet. The time of the news conference will be announced in the morning.
 
Assisting the Cloquet Police in this case includes:
Cloquet Area Fire District, Carlton County Sheriff's Office, St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, Minnesota State Patrol, Fond Du Lac Police, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Minnesota Homeland Security Emergency Management, and Mayo Ambulance,