28 February 2024
A public memorial service for three slain first responders has drawn thousands to a church in Eden Prairie. What a livestream of the memorial service beginning at 11 a.m. here:
On Wednesday, the sun cast a peach glow as it rose in a chilled blue sky above Grace Church. Inside the sanctuary, red and blue flowers adorned three large portraits of the slain Burnsville three: Police officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and paramedic/firefighter Adam Finseth.
Also: Live updates from Burnsville and Eden Prairie as Minnesota remembers and mourns the three Burnsville first responders.
Elmstrand and Ruge, both 27, and Finseth, 40, died when a gunman opened fire on them as the first responders tried to assist a family during a domestic incident in the Dakota County suburb on Sunday, Feb. 18.
Burnsville police Sgt. Adam Medlicott, who was also shot by the gunman and is recovering, is scheduled to be one of the memorial service’s speakers, according to the program released less than an hour before the service by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
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