Monday, 29 March 2010
Burnsville resident Joel Marvin Munt, 33, is in custody awaiting charges in the Mankato shooting death of his ex-wife., Mankato’s Department of Public Safety reports.
Munt was captured and arrested Sunday on probably cause of second-degree murder in the death of his ex-wife, 32-year-old Svetlana Vladimirovna Munt of Mankato.
The shooting occurred shortly before noon Sunday in Mankato’s Rasmussen Woods Park, police said in reports on the city’s Web site.
Police responding to reports of gunfire in the park’s cul-de-sac area found a car pinned against some trees by a sport-utility vehicle that was still in gear, with one of its rear tires spinning on the blacktop and spewing smoke. The SUV had collided with the car and forced it off the road.
The victim was found face-down in the car and declared dead at the scene, police said.
Witnesses told police the shooter had fled the park in another SUV. Police say Munt stole the vehicle at gunpoint from a passerby who stopped to help after seeing smoke from the spinning tire.
He fled the scene with three children who were in the victim’s vehicle, according to news reports.
A Blue Earth County sheriff’s deputy spotted the SUV, which had traveled south and west on two county roads. The deputy stopped the vehicle and arrested Munt without incident. The three children were inside the vehicle, according to news reports.
A handgun was found during the investigation, police said.
The investigation remains open as police and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension seek witness accounts and try to piece together the events, police said.
— John Gessner
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