INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. — A Minneapolis man was charged Thursday in connection with a homicide discovered in Inver Grove Heights on Monday.
In a press release from the Dakota County Attorney's Office, Gabriel Alfonso Sanchez Cruz, 42, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Squads were dispatched to a scene on the 1300 block of 60th Street W. around 8 a.m. Monday on reports of a "suspicious incident." Officers found a man, now identified as 39-year-old Bryant Jon Lutgens of Burnsville, laying in a snowbank. He was declared dead on the scene.
On Wednesday police put out an alert on a vehicle they identified as being associated with the homicide. That vehicle was later spotted in Minneapolis, where police initiated a traffic stop and arrested Cruz. He is currently being held in the Dakota County Jail and will make his first court appearance Friday in Hastings.
A second person in the vehicle was arrested after officers found they were wanted on a warrant issued by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.
At this point investigators have not released a motive for the killing. Anyone with information on the case or the suspect is asked to call the Inver Grove Heights Police tip line at 651-450-2530.