Morris Silas Dodd Jr. Arrested Manslaughter Accidental Shooting of Former MN Police Chief

Morris Silas Dodd Jr. Arrested Manslaughter Accidental Shooting of Former MN Police Chief --- ===

November 10, 2018 Morris Silas Dodd Jr. Arrested Manslaughter Accidental Shooting of Former MN Police Chief 

*Footnotes

(1) Sex offender arrested after retired MN police chief shot and killed while hunting twincities.com
shell casing, footprints and a cigarette butt found several hundred yards from the body of a former Lake Park, Minn., police chief on Nov.shell casing, footprints and a cigarette butt found several hundred yards from the body of a former Lake Park, Minn., police chief on Nov. 10 in rural Becker County led officials to the man now charged with manslaughter.  Morris Silas Dodd Jr., 54, of Ogema, Minn., is charged with one count of felony second-degree manslaughter and one felony count of a felon illegally possessing a firearm, according to documents filed in Becker County District Killed in the incident was Jay Clayton Nelson, 53, who was found dead Nov. 10 on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Becker County. ...  wooded area several hundred yards away, authorities found a spent shell casing, a cigarette butt and footprints...witness described man ...with a long beard, later identified.. Dodd admitted ..was in the general area of Nelson’s death on Nov. 10 with rifle fired a shot toward a fawn in order to scare it, though he stressed he wasn’t trying to hit the animal.

*Sources 

Police arrest man in ex-police chief fatal shooting - StarTribune.com  Nelson was former police chief  of Lake Park, Minnesota.

Man arrested for manslaughter in hunting death of former police chief ...

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota.../man-arrested-for-manslaughter-in-hunting-d...



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Man charged in apparent hunting accident that killed former police chief

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UPDATE: Man Shot to Scare Fawn, Killed Ex-Police Chief | KAALTV.com

https://www.kaaltv.com/news/...minnesota-ex-police-chief...shooting-arrest.../5161564...



2 days ago - Authorities have made an arrest in an apparent hunting accident that killed a former police chief in northwestern Minnesota earlier this month.