The man who shot and killed Super 8 hotel employees and guests in a small Minnesota town appears to have no connection to the victims, authorities said.
Cloquet police announced Monday that it does not appear that Ramsey resident Nicholas Elliot Lenius, 32, knew any of the people he killed on Jan. 9. Rheneas died by suicide during the incident that night, when the gunman alert was issued. city.
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Officials also said a toxicology report found methamphetamine in Reneas’ blood, which may have impaired him during the shooting.
The man who killed two people at a Super 8 motel in Cloquet, Minn., did not know his victims, authorities said. (Fox News)
Police responded to the shooting and found hotel employee Shelby Trettel, 22, shot near the front desk. The other victim, Patrick Jeffrey Roers, 35, of Deer River, was shot in his car parked on the hotel lot.
Rheneas and Roers were both guests at the motel.
Authorities issued an alert that night about an active shooter at the hotel and warned people in the area around Big Lake Road and Highway 33 to shelter in place.
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Crockett, about 20 miles west of Duluth, is home to about 12,000 people.
