A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent "discharged his weapon" while trying to apprehend a homicide suspect in Bloomington late Wednesday, authorities said Thursday night.
The gunfire preceded a six-hour manhunt that ended early Thursday with the arrest of Eddie Markeith Frazier, suspected in the death of a woman he lived with in Crookston, Minn.
According to the Crookston Daily Times, Frazier, 49, was charged Thursday in Polk County with three counts of second-degree murder in the death of 48-year-old Tawnja Wallace, whose body was found Wednesday in the home she shared with Frazier.
Frazier was arrested just after 3 a.m. Thursday in the 8200 block of Stevens Avenue S., according to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.
In a news release Thursday night, the BCA confirmed that shots were fired when BCA agents approached Frazier in Bloomington about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday.
"During the effort to apprehend [Frazier] … a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agent discharged his weapon," according to a BCA news release.
It identified the agent as Special Agent in Charge Scott Mueller, who has led the BCA's metro regional office for more than three years. Mueller, who has been with the BCA since 2008 and also has worked for the White Bear Lake Police Department, was placed on standard administrative leave.
The BCA did not say why Mueller fired his gun, whether Frazier was hit, or what, if any, injuries resulted. It did say that Frazier was taken to a hospital after he was arrested.
