Suspect in Rosemount Standoff Formally Charged
A 32-year-old Rosemount man has been charged with a felony after threatening to kill his neighbors with a non-existent weapons cache that he said included a sniper rifle, an AR-15, a 12 gauge, and an AK-47 equipped with a grenade launcher.
A Rosemount man faces a felony charge after instigating a two-hour SWAT team siege last weekend. Timothy Richard Nelson, 32, is charged with one count of making terroristic threats, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Nelson allegedly threatened mass murder against anyone in the vicinity of his home, a townhouse on the 3000 block of Coleshire Path in Rosemount. Police received a suspicious phone call at about 8:34 p.m. Sunday. The caller stated that he was mad at anyone with a "bleeding heartbeat," and told the dispatcher that he was about to start taking out his neighbors. The Rosemount Police Department quickly identified the caller as Nelson. The department was already familiar with the suspect…
