Shellby Marie Trettel

On the evening of January 8, 2024, the life of a 22-year-old White/Caucasian female, Shellby Marie Trettel, was tragically cut short in a senseless act of violence in Cloquet, Minnesota. Trettel was dutifully working her shift as a front desk representative at the Super 8 hotel, a job she had held since she was a teenager. It was a place familiar to her, but that night it became the scene of a devastating double homicide.

A 911 call was made around 6:30 p.m. by a fellow Super 8 employee w ...

Cloquet Pine Journal: Cloquet mourns death of Shellby Trettel with candelight vigil

Shellby Trettel, woman killed at Cloquet Super 8, remembered by loved ones as kindhearted