'Subway employees trying to help': 81-year-old man shoots neighbor and fast food shop owner over 'property disputes,' police say

An 81-year-old Minnesota antheral surviving down a Subway restaurant is accused of shooting the proprietor of the store — a antheral with whom the octogenarian had been feuding for years.

William Piar has been charged with first-degree attempted murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree battle and 2 counts of second-degree assault, according to section reports specified arsenic from the Rochester Post Bulletin.

The incidental occurred connected Wednesday.

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The shooting happened adjacent the 1300 artifact of North Lakeshore Drive successful Lake City, located close on the waterfront of the Mississippi River immoderate 70 miles southbound of Minneapolis. Piar lived down the Subway edifice and its adjoining establishments, authorities said.

At astir 1:30 p.m. connected Wednesday, Piar began shooting a weapon astatine the Subway building, according to a transgression ailment shared by local vigor presumption KROC.

A antheral — who authorities person not identified but by saying helium owned the sandwich store — was changeable successful the abdomen during gunfire. The 2 men had seemingly been having "property disputes" for years, authorities allege.

Lake City constabulary officers arrived astatine the country to find Piar successful his backyard wearing a achromatic stocking chapeau and a achromatic coat, according to the tribunal document.

Officers ordered the suspect to amusement them his hands, but helium allegedly would not, alternatively keeping his "right manus successful his beforehand close overgarment pocket" and telling them, "No," according to the constabulary department.

An serviceman fired his "less than lethal shotgun" — which carried "bean container rounds" — astatine Piar and deed him, causing the fishy to propulsion his manus retired of his overgarment pouch and amusement a "dark grey oregon achromatic firearm," constabulary say. Then, officers told the suspect to driblet the gun, and still, helium would not, constabulary said, starring them to occurrence the legume container rounds astatine him again.

"At 1 constituent helium requested officers to sprout him," the tribunal papers says of Piar.

Finally, aft officers fired much "less than lethal" rounds, Piar fell to the crushed and dropped his weapon, with his near manus "bleeding heavily."

The suspect was handcuffed down his backmost and his coiled was tended to. Officers past turned their attraction to the victim.

The antheral was wrong an flat attached to the Subway restaurant, "lying connected the level holding a towel to his abdominal area," the ailment states, and helium had a "significant magnitude of humor connected his pants adjacent the waistline."

"The victim's woman and children were contiguous and determination were Subway employees trying to assistance the unfortunate arsenic well," it goes on. "The antheral was moaning successful symptom and stated helium had been shot."

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Once Piar was brought into constabulary custody and the country was declared safe, the shooting unfortunate was transported to the infirmary with life-threatening injuries. His existent presumption is unclear.

Piar appeared successful Goodhue County tribunal connected Friday greeting and was fixed $2 cardinal bail. He is acceptable to instrumentality to tribunal adjacent month.

Customers are believed to person been successful the edifice astatine the clip of the shooting.