Corey O'Neal Elder

On May 28, 2026, officers of the Fridley Police Department were dispatched to a residence on 69th Ave NE in the city of Fridley, Anoka County, Minnesota, for a report of a person banging on the door of the residence and threatening to shoot up the house. When officers arrived, they made contact with Victim who told officers that her neighbor, Corey O’Neal Elder, [DOB REDACTED], Defendant herein, had come to the door of the residence and started banging on the door stating that a family member of Victim had sexually assaulted Defendant’s daughter.

Defendant was threatening to shoot up everybody in the house. Defendant also stated “I can put a hole in his chest and Imma [sic] shoot all of y’all. Yall ain’t s*** we gonna shoot all of y’all” while banging on the door. While doing this, Defendant broke the door handle off the screen door of the residence. Victim [NAME REDACTED] would call the police and Defendant eventually got back into his vehicle and left. Officer also spoke to a Witness nearby who told officers that she heard someone banging on Victim’s door and then saw a male matching the description of Defendant at Victim’s door.

Witness also heard the male threaten to shoot up the residents and heard him say that he would put a hole in his chest. Witness also heard the male rack the slide of a handgun. Witness believed that the man was holding a handgun, not a long gun. Officers went to Defendant’s residence, also located in the city of Fridley, and learned that another officer was with Defendant in Defendant’s apartment on an unrelated matter. At the residence, officers observed Defendant’s vehicle and could feel that it was still warm, as if it had just been running.

Officers placed Defendant under arrest. In a later search pursuant to search warrant of Defendant’s vehicle, officers located a handgun in the center console of the vehicle. Defendant has a prior felony conviction for Malicious Punishment of a Child, court file ••-CR-••-••••.