Cloquet shooter was 'actively recording' on night of double homicide at Super 8

DULUTH - The shooter in a double homicide at the Cloquet Super 8 earlier this month seemed to be "actively recording" from inside his Ford F-150, which was parked facing a victim's vehicle in the hotel parking lot.

Nicholas Elliot Lenius, 32, was a first-floor guest at the two-story hotel tucked off Big Lake Road on Jan. 8, the night he fatally shot Shellby Marie Trettel, 22, of Cloquet, and Patrick Jeffrey Roers, 35. In the final minutes before he turned his gun on himself, Lenius sent a Snapchat message to his supervisor that said "WTF is going on," according to spare details revealed in search warrants filed in Carlton County.

The supervisor called Lenius back and the two talked - a conversation seen by officials on the hotel's video footage. There are not further details about what they talked about and the supervisor did not return a phone call for this story.

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