A late-night shooting on September 12, 2021 left a Long Prairie neighborhood reeling. At about 3:30 a.m., deputies responded to reported gunfire at a residence in the 500 block of 2nd Avenue Southeast. Officers found 33-year-old Antonio Francis Rodriguez Fortes in the yard with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide from those wounds.

Two other people were shot in the same incident. One was taken by ambulance to Long Prairie Hospital and then airlifted to St. Cloud Hospital; a third victim arrived at Long Prairie Hospital on their own before also being transferred to St. Cloud for further care. The Long Prairie Police Department and the Todd County Sheriff’s Office opened an active investigation and asked the public for information, but no suspects or arrests were publicly identified in the days and weeks that followed.

Did anyone in the Long Prairie area see or hear anything the morning of September 12 that could help explain what happened?