2024 Burnsville shooting
| 2024 Burnsville shooting | |
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| Location | Burnsville, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Date | February 18, 2024 c. 5:30 a.m. (CST) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder-suicide, triple-murder, shootout |
| Weapon | Multiple firearms, including two AR-15-style rifles obtained via straw purchase |
| Deaths | 4 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 2 (1 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Shannon Cortez Gooden |
| Charges | Ashley Anne Dyrdahl:
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On February 18, 2024, during a police standoff in Burnsville, Minnesota, Shannon Gooden shot and killed police officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth, who had responded to a 911 call reporting an alleged sexual assault. After a shootout with first responders, Gooden killed himself with a single gunshot to the head.
Federal authorities later filed charges against Gooden's girlfriend, Ashley Anne Dyrdahl, for allegedly straw purchasing the guns for Gooden. She eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to over three years in prison.