Nightclub shooting isn’t the first violent crime at the bar

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A deadly weekend shooting at a downtown Minneapolis nightclub isn’t the first violent crime at the venue.

A shooting early Sunday at Rouge at the Lounge killed one man and injured another. Police haven’t announced any arrests or identified the victims.

The Star Tribune reported two violent incidents have occurred inside or immediately outside the club in the past year and a half.

Attempted murder and assault charges were filed in October against a man accused of running over four people in the parking lot of the lounge. Defendant Eduardo Morales told investigators that he had gotten into an argument with a Rouge employee.

And, in July 2018, a fight prompted a shooting outside the bar that wounded two women and a man.

Detectives have not linked the shooting to any other crimes in the recent past, police said Sunday.

Mankato mother charged with murder in child’s death

MANKATO (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Mankato woman accused of physically abusing her young son with murder after the boy died.

Blue Earth County Attorney Pat McDermott said Monday that charges against 27-year-old Chelsea Rae Olinger were amended to include second- and third-degree murder and malicious punishment of a child, all felonies.

Olinger initially was charged with felony assault after she brought her unresponsive 16-month-old child to a hospital. The child also had bruises, rib fractures, broken vertebrae and a lacerated liver. Tests indicated the boy had no brain activity.

The Mankato Free Press reported the boy died Feb. 12. A preliminary autopsy report listed the cause of death as “complications of multiple blunt force injuries” and the manner of death as homicide.

Olinger told investigators the toddler fell down a flight of stairs. Officials said she also told investigators she might have hit her child’s head on the side of a crib and that she put her hand over the child’s month in an attempt to get the toddler to stop crying.

Olinger remains jailed with bail set at $1 million. Her public defender did not immediately return a phone call for comment on her behalf.