
Man Charged After Officer Injured During Duluth Arrest
During the arrest, authorities say the officer was accidentally stabbed by a knife protruding from the man’s pocket during a struggle.
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During the arrest, authorities say the officer was accidentally stabbed by a knife protruding from the man’s pocket during a struggle.

Authorities say an officer located the man one block north of where the original call was reported. As the officer attempted to detain him, the man actively resisted and stabbed the officer.

The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man who died during the Feb. 10 use-of-force incident as 30-year-old Donald Felver III, of Duluth.

Authorities say the suspect fled the homicide scene and was later killed during an exchange of gunfire with deputies after a pursuit on Grand Avenue around 9:40 p.m.

The shooting happened around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the 400 block of Piedmont Avenue, where officers found a man dead from apparent gunshot wounds.

The incident happened around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, after a Saint Louis County deputy attempted to stop a driver for reckless driving near Grand Avenue & 59th Avenue West.

St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office deputies say a snowmobile crashed while negotiating a sharp corner, leaving the passenger seriously injured. Authorities said the driver didn’t require medical care.

Investigators say the Lake Superior Violent Offender Task Force first identified people connected to the operation in May 2023 while looking into local drug activity and firearm-related violence.

Police were dispatched to a domestic assault on Oct. 28 after Martinez’s husband, a 54-year-old man, said Martinez assaulted him and had been having sex with her biological father.

The Duluth Police Department says officers were called around 12:25 a.m. to the 200 block of West 3rd Street after reports of a shooting.

When officers arrived, they found the woman lying in a pool of blood with a stab wound near her spine. Medics provided aid at the scene before she was transported for treatment.

Investigators discovered the suspect had been working with children as a ski coach and used Adobe Photoshop to digitally alter photos of them. Authorities say he morphed the children’s faces onto explicit images of child sexual abuse.