A woman was found dead in an apartment complex dumpster Monday morning in Bloomington, and police arrested a suspect after he fled several miles in a vehicle with a child, authorities said.
Witnesses who called police reported seeing the man putting the 23-year-old woman's body in the trash bin outside an apartment complex near the 8900 block of Wentworth Avenue, according to police.
He was "dragging her toward the dumpster," according to emergency dispatch audio.
An officer arrived, made the discovery and was alerted to a vehicle leaving the parking lot, police said.
The 24-year-old suspect drove off and was soon apprehended in Minneapolis at Nicollet Avenue and 46th Street, police said. The 1-year-old with him was not physically harmed, but the man was taken to HCMC for medical attention, according to police. He has since been jailed pending charges, police said.
Authorities are withholding how the woman was killed, but an officer on the scene said she appeared to have been stabbed, according to the dispatch audio.
"Obviously, there was a crime scene there in an apartment" where she lived, Police Chief Mike Hartley said at an afternoon news conference.
The chief said the man and the woman were in "a domestic relationship."
