Fruitless Fridley Search for 'Guy with Rifle' Spooks Mom at School Bus Stop

After Newtown school shootings, it 'scared me to my bones.'

A resident of the Springbrook Apartments in Fridley said the week got of to a scary start Monday morning when police with rifles drawn said to get back inside as she walked her child to the school bus stop. Fridley Police Lt. Mike Monsrud said that at about 8:51 a.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the Springbrook Apartments, 191 83rd Ave. NE "on a report of a guy walking around with a rifle." Police checked the area where people said the person with the rifle had gone, including between the complex's 191 83rd Ave. and 101 83rd Ave. buildings, Monsrud said. But they didn't find a gunman or even any sign of him, he said, such as tracks in the snow. "That's why there were so many [police] up there with long guns out," Monsrud said. …

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