Small-Town Minnesota Hotel Shooting Kills Clerk and 2 Possible Guests, Including Suspect, Police Say

Police and the BCA at the scene where two people were shot and killed Monday night at a Super 8 hotel in Cloquet, Minn., on Jan. 9, 2024. Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP

MINNEAPOLIS—A shooting at a small-town Minnesota hotel killed an employee and two possible guests, including the suspect, authorities said Tuesday, one day after an active shooter alert was issued.

An employee at the Super 8 in Cloquet, Minnesota, called police shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday to say they had found another employee who looked like she had been attacked, Cloquet police Chief Derek Randall said at a news conference Tuesday.