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Burnsville police Sgt. Adam Medlicott was responding to a domestic disturbance call on Sunday in the suburb with fellow officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, and firefighter Adam Finseth when a man began shooting, according to a preliminary account of what happened. 

The man was barricaded inside his home with seven children. Elmstrand, Ruge and Finseth died at the scene. The man barricaded inside the home also died of gunshot wounds, state investigators said.

Autopsy results were released for Elmstrand, Ruge and Finseth. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner says Elmstrand died from multiple gunshot wounds, Ruge died of a gunshot wound to the chest and Finseth died of a wound to the right arm and torso.

Medlicott, 38, was treated at Hennepin Healthcare’s hospital for his injuries. City officials say he is recovering at home. 

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Medlicott joined the Burnsville Police Department in 2014 and became a sergeant in 2022. That year he was named Burnsville’s officer of the year. 

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Burnsville police Sgt. Adam Medlicott has survived a shooting that took the lives of three fellow emergency responders; paramedic Adam Finseth and fellow police officers Matthew Ruge and Paul Elmstrand.

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