NORMANNA TOWNSHIP, Minn. — A 57-year-old man with a history of intense conflict with neighbors in rural St. Louis County was shot and killed while being pursued by sheriff’s deputies Tuesday morning near Duluth, officials said.
The Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Adam Clinton Wolf, who was being tracked near his rural home and after reports of him setting his residence albaze shortly before he was shot.
Sheriff Gordon Ramsay was preparing to release more information later Tuesday afternoon about the string of incidents in Normanna Township, located about halfway between Duluth and Two Harbors.
The BCA said earlier that its agents and crime scene personnel have arrived to where the incident occurred.
Communications among emergency dispatch and deputies in the field revealed that Wolf was shot about 9:50 a.m. and life-saving efforts soon afterward were called off. Officials have yet to say whether the gunfire came from law enforcement or was self-inflicted.
Wolf’s home was set on fire sometime after 9:30 a.m., according to the dispatches.
Bob Swanfeld, a relatively new neighbor, said Wolf has been a problem to those in surrounding homes.
Julie Johnson’s parents, who lived next door to Wolf, have filed a restraining order against him — one of several in this rural neighborhood, she said. The Johnsons had a fence built between the properties, she said.
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