Earlier in the day, Duluth police said two men robbed another at knifepoint in an apartment at [address redacted].
According to police, officers responded to a report of a home-invasion robbery at 6:38 p.m. The male victim had been sleeping and was awakened by two black males, one of whom was armed with a small knife, who had entered the apartment through an unlocked door.
Authorities say Marcella Sauck woke up a short time before midnight to find an intruder, identified as 30 year-old Douglas Bennett lying on her living room floor. When she went to call for help... the intruder allegedly attacked her..[snip] He continued to advance. Mr. Sauck fired one round form the handgun, the intruder continued to advance, he fired one more round striking the intruder in the leg.
Marcella Sauck is listed in critical condition at St. Mary's Hospital ... she suffered broken bones in an arm and leg, as well as eye and internal injuries. Elmer Sauck suffered non-life threatening injuries. As for the Intruder Douglas Bennett... he was airlifted to St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester... he's listed in Fair Condition... and is under guard.
Authorities don't believe Bennett had any connection to the Saucks... and do believe it was a random act... something they say they don't see often. It just doesn't happen down here, it's a very safe and quiet part of the country.
Police responded to a call shortly after midnight from a rural home near the town of Truman, which is southwest of Mankato. Marcella Sauck called to report that a man in his 30s was in her home and assaulting her husband, Elmer.
Marcella Sauck suffered a broken arm during the incident, and Elmer Sauck was hospitalized with unknown injuries. The suspect suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was airlifted to Rochester with a police escort.
A Two Harbors man confessed Monday that he took part in the Congdon Park home invasion in which a mother and her 9-year-old son were terrorized by being bound at gunpoint as he and an accomplice searched the home for money.
Two men broke into Traub's Burnsville home on May 11, stabbing him -- 17 times in the back, twice in the head and once in the cheek-- and setting seven fires in his home before fleeing in his car. He was hospitalized for a day and a half and is living in an apartment for several months until his home, which was heavily damaged by smoke, is habitable again.
"So he tells me; 'You gotta pick A or B. And you pick the right answer, you live, and you pick the wrong answer, you die,'" Traub remembered. "I was laying there, I thought I was conscious through all of it, but looking back on it, I probably wasn't."
Traub said that his neighbors are more conscious now of locking garages and locking doors.
"They've got a more heightened awareness of people walking in the neighborhood," he said. "In a sense, it's a good thing ... [but] it's a shame that we have to resort to things like that."
The Hibbing police department has made an arrest in connection with a home invasion and sexual assault there on Tuesday.
Michelle, Police arrested a 20-year old Hibbing man early this morning... after an extensive investigation.
Hibbing Police are looking for suspects in a home invasion and sexual assault that happened early this morning.
A press release from the Hibbing Police Department said the incident occurred in the Graysher area of Hibbing at 3:16 a.m.
Further details weren’t available tonight.
