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Superior Police Officer Shot During Early Sunday Morning Incident
The officer is in stable condition after being shot during a multi-agency response; the incident caused significant damage but was unrelated to school activities.
- On Sunday, the Superior Police Department said a Superior police officer was shot during a multi-jurisdictional response near Superior Middle School and is in stable condition at Essentia-Health in Duluth.
- School District of Superior said the incident was not related to school operations or students and will communicate directly with families and staff with plans for the Monday school day.
- Evidence teams documented many shell casings marked with yellow evidence tags and small orange cones, while News Tribune staff observed a white van crashed through two main entrance doors of the Superior Middle School building.
- Police Chief Paul Winterscheidt urged residents to avoid the area, saying, `We are asking residents to avoid the area while we resolve this situation,` and Mayor Jim Paine praised the first-on-scene officer's tremendous valor.
- At 10:30 a.m. Sunday investigators reported Tower Avenue was closed both ways while the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation and Wisconsin State Patrol investigated, with no suspect identified early Sunday.
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Superior TelegramSuperior police officer shot; suspect in custody
SUPERIOR — A police officer was shot Sunday during what authorities described as a "a multi-jurisdictional response to an active incident." The Superior Police Department confirmed in a Sunday morning news release that one Superior officer is in stable condition at Essentia-Health in Duluth after the incident at the Superior Middle School, North 37th Street and Tower Avenue. One person is in custody. "We are asking residents to avoid the area wh…
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