Man fatally shot by deputies on Iron Range

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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/12/05/man-fatally-shot-by-deputies-on-iron-range

A 19-year-old man is dead after being shot by sheriff's deputies on Saturday on northern Minnesota's Iron Range.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been called in to handle the investigation into the shooting, which happened at about 1:30 p.m. in a wooded area in the city of Mountain Iron.

Authorities have not released the name of the man who died, or the identities of the two deputies who fired their weapons.

According to an account from the St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a report of a shoplifter at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday at a business on the 8400 block of Enterprise Drive North. A male suspect fled the scene on foot.

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1. Update

The Iron Range man shot to death in St. Louis County by sheriff's deputies over the weekend was identified Sunday by his mother as 19-year-old Estavon Dominic Elioff.

Elioff was the man who law enforcement believes was suspected of shoplifting early Saturday afternoon at L & M Fleet Supply in Mountain Iron shortly before he was chased into the woods and shot, said his mother, Jacqueline Martinez.

A Sheriff's Office statement said a deputy arrived outside the retailer, where Elioff "refused commands and then fled on foot."

About an hour later, deputies and a police dog found the man in some woods. During the confrontation, deputies first deployed Tasers, then two of them shot the man, the statement continued.

Elioff, who lived in Virginia, a few miles to the east of where he was shot, died at the scene.

The Strib says he was a great-grandson of Dominic Elioff, an Iron Range rep from the late 70s-80s.

What a fucking mess. FTP.