Mitchell Elvin RichmondRepeat

On or about June 22, 2025 at approximately 4:50 P.M., officers responded to a call from the La Quinta hotel on Nicollet Avenue South in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota. The reporting party told officers that he parked his van on the west side of the “horseshoe” area near the hotel, and when his children got out of the van, they saw a gun on the ground. The reporting party told officers that no one touched the gun. Officers arrived on scene and located a gun inside of a holster lying on the ground close to the building between two room windows.

Officers identified the gun as a Browning 1911.380 caliber with serial number 51HZN01428. Officers observed six rounds in the magazine and no rounds in the chamber. Routine checks showed the gun was confirmed as stolen out of South Dakota in 2022. Officers reviewed prior calls from the area. During one call from June 18, 2025, officers chased a male on foot through the horseshoe area outside of the La Quinta hotel. The male was taken into custody at a nearby Super 8 motel and identified as MITCHELL ELVIN RICHMOND (“Defendant” herein). When officers took Defendant into custody on June 18, Defendant was in possession of a tactical laser that would typically be mounted on a firearm.

A firearm was not located on or near Defendant at that time. The Browning gun was swabbed for DNA, and a DNA profile from the gun was uploaded into the Combined DNA Index System (“CODIS”). This profile returned as a match to Defendant’s prior known sample. Defendant is prohibited from possessing a firearm due to the following prior conviction for a crime of violence: convicted of felony Threats of Violence in violation of Minn. Stat. § 609.713, subd. 1 on or about Dec. 12, 2018 (Court File Number 19HA-CR-18-2003).