A 71-year-old man who has been involved in at least five other alleged road rage incidents in recent years was charged Tuesday with confronting two motorcyclists in the Isanti Police Department parking lot and shooting one of them in the chin.
Joseph D. Kadlec, 71, of Cambridge, Minn., was charged with three felonies: first-degree assault, second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and first-degree attempted manslaughter. Kadlec was jailed following the shooting Saturday afternoon and was released on bail Tuesday night.
Kadlec has a permit to carry a gun, according to the Isanti County Sheriff's Office. He has been involved in five other road rage incidents in the past four years, according to the criminal complaint in this case.
Isanti County Sheriff Russ Monson didn't return phone calls asking about whether those incidents were considered when authorities approved Kadlec's application to carry a firearm.
The shooting victim, Kyle W. Ronning, 29, of Columbia Heights, was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. He was in satisfactory condition.
A fellow motorcyclist and roommate, Matthew D. Larowe, 30, was at the scene but unharmed.
The bullet entered "directly into [Ronning's] chin just below his bottom lip," according to the complaint, filed in Isanti County District Court. The bullet broke several of Ronning's teeth, the complaint added, and was "protruding from the lower portion of his right ear."
In a brief telephone interview Tuesday, Larowe said he and Ronning were "out enjoying the weather" on their motorcycles and it was Kadlec who "was definitely out of line."