Crime & Safety

Rosemount Man, 2 Others Charged with Making Terroristic Threats

Police say the three men threatened to kill a group of people in a car this week in Burnsville.

Three men have been charged with making terroristic threats after an incident this week in Burnsville in which police say they threatened to kill the occupants of another car, including an infant.

Xavian Blake Fuller, 22, of Apple Valley; Richard Louis Lange III, 24, of Rosemount; and Michael Alan O’Connor, 22, of Farmington are all charged with making terroristic threats, a felony, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

O’Connor also faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree criminal damage to property, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

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All three men remained in the Dakota County Jail Friday on $20,000 bonds.

According to the criminal complaints, Burnsville police were called to a convenience store Tuesday when someone reported an assault in progress.

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Two groups of people in two cars – including the car in which Fuller, Lange and O’Connor were riding – got into an argument at the store, “yelling at each other back and forth,” the complaint says.

During that verbal argument, Fuller, Lange and O’Connor were threatening to hurt or kill the occupants of the other car, the victims told police.

O’Connor got out of the car and punched the back window of the other car, shattering it and causing pieces of glass to fall on an infant sitting next to the window, according to the complaint.

The occupants of that car then called 911 and followed the other car. At the intersection of County Road 11 and County Road 42 in Apple Valley, the two vehicles stopped for a red light, and Lange, O’Connor and Fuller got out of their car and surrounded the other one, with O’Connor brandishing a knife, the complaint says.

Omnibus hearings have been scheduled for Nov. 14 for Lange, Nov. 28 for Fuller and Nov. 29 for O’Connor, all in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.


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