Man killed after taking hostages at Minn. meeting

A man who had fought with county officials for years over his adult businesses walked into a board meeting with a gun on Tuesday and held about 10 people hostage before law-enforcement officers fatally shot him, authorities said.

A few people managed to escape the county commissioners' meeting Tuesday morning after Gordon Wheeler Sr. pulled out a handgun, said Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent for the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

They called the Morrison County sheriff's office and a few minutes later, Sheriff Michel Wetzel, a deputy and a state trooper fired on Wheeler, Bjerga said. The 60-year-old was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

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