MANKATO — A clerk at the Madison Avenue Kwik Trip was murdered at about 3 a.m. Tuesday.
Police identified the suspect by reviewing surveillance footage and arrested a 28-year-old man at his residence without incident at around 6 a.m.
Police responded to a disturbance at the store, located at 1549 Madison Avenue, at 3:04 a.m. and found an unresponsive male employee lying on the floor with a knife wound. He was taken to the Mankato hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
Police were planning to issue a shelter in place order for a two-block radius around the 400 block of Commodore Drive, which is a few blocks from the Kwik Trip. The shelter order wasn’t put in place as the suspect was arrested.
Police and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had the Kwik Trip property sealed off shortly after the incident and are continuing to investigate.
Police said additional details regarding the name of the suspect, criminal charges and information about the victim will be released at a later time.