Overview
- A juvenile called 911 at 4:22 a.m. reporting that his mother’s ex-boyfriend broke into the house and shot her, according to the criminal complaint.
- Responding officers found a 32-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man dead inside the residence in the small community west of Mankato.
- The complaint says the gunman pointed a firearm at the boy and told him to go back to his room, and that the suspect later confessed in a text message to his brother.
- Authorities arrested Zimmerman in Letts, Iowa, around 4:12 p.m. after a multijurisdictional pursuit involving state troopers and several county sheriff’s offices.
- Local reporting says deputies rammed the suspect’s vehicle during the chase and that he allegedly fired at officers with a long gun and missed; he remains held in the Louisa County Jail.