Suspect arrested after threats triggered University of Minnesota safety alerts

Jan 12, 20240

Angelina Katsanis, Star Tribune count

A police car waited on campus at the University of Minnesota after receiving deadly threats by a man saying he was going to target the U on Thursday in Minneapolis

A man suspected of threatening to shoot students at the University of Minnesota was arrested Thursday afternoon after an apparent standoff at his home in southwestern Minnesota.

Joseph Rongstad, 41, was arrested just after 4:15 p.m. "safely, without incident," Chippewa County Sheriff Derek Olson said in a Facebook post.

Rongstad was booked into Chippewa County Jail on probable cause for felony-level threats of violence, Olson wrote in a follow-up post.

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