Wounded Minn. deputy's condition improving
The condition of a Mahnomen County sheriff's deputy wounded in a shooting has been upgraded from critical to guarded.
MeritCare Hospital Dr. Frank Sepe, in Fargo, N.D., said in a statement Saturday that 26-year-old Deputy Christopher Dewey is moving his left side and consistently following commands. He had been able to move his right side all along.
Dewey also has been able to talk and as of noon Saturday was able to eat soft foods.
He was shot in the head and the abdomen Wednesday morning while checking a report of shots fired in a neighborhood in Mahnomen. A backup deputy found Dewey lying in the driveway.
Two Minneapolis-area men face multiple charges. They surrendered after a nine-hour standoff at a mobile home.
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