Manhunt nears a week old for suspect charged with fatally shooting man in northwestern Minnesota

An extensive manhunt is nearly a week old for a suspect charged in the fatal shooting of a man in a parked SUV in northwestern Minnesota.

Michael D. Croud was charged in Becker County District Court with second-degree intentional murder in connection with the death Sunday of David W. Hanks Jr., 35, of Park Rapids, Minn., in the village of Pine Point.

Croud, 40, of Ogema, Minn., was charged by warrant and had yet to be captured as of Friday morning.

Many law enforcement agencies have been trying to find and arrest Croud. They include the FBI, the sheriff's offices of Becker and Hubbard counties, the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the White Earth Police Department, the State Patrol and three task forces in the region.

The BCA said that on Tuesday its agents and other officers converged on S. 18th Street in Moorhead, Minn., at an apartment complex 75 miles west of the crime scene in the hope of finding Croud, but he was not there.

Jamie Bischoff, a Becker County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, said the search effort is "not limited to any specific area."

Anyone with information about Croud's whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Becker County Sheriff's Office at 218-847-2661.

A report of shots being fired led a sheriff's deputy to find an unconscious Hanks face down on the ground and suffering from numerous gunshot wounds. Emergency personnel declared him dead at the scene.

A woman told an investigator that she was sitting in the back of the SUV, when Hanks said as Croud walked toward the SUV, "Oh, it's Mike. Get out of here. Get out of here," the complaint quoted the woman.

Croud opened the front passenger door and shot Hanks numerous times, she said. Croud then got in a Pontiac G6 sedan and drove off.

The complaint did not assign a motive to the shooting.