by April Scheinoha
Editor
A Kennedy woman has been charged in Kittson County District Court after she allegedly shot and killed a Hallock man Thursday.
Jordan Carol Hanson, 23, has been charged with felony offenses of second degree murder and third degree murder. She was arrested without incident outside of her mom’s Kennedy home.
The complaint only identified the man by his initials of J.E. Law enforcement found him dead at his home. He had been shot in the head.
Hanson’s family members reported the shooting. At the time of her arrest, Hanson was allegedly not making any sense, said at one point that she had shot the chief deputy who was arresting her, and apologized. A man who said he had smoked methamphetamine with Hanson and the man, told law enforcement that he witnessed Hanson shooting the man.
The charge stemmed from a report to Kittson County Sheriff’s Office at about 1:27 p.m. Thursday. Hanson’s mom reported that her daughter had allegedly shot the man in the head and she wanted to talk to Chief Deputy Dave Thompson or Sheriff Matt Vig. She said her daughter, who had recently been under the care of a treatment center for drugs, was with her at her home. She said someone had picked Hanson up from the treatment center during the night and had driven her to Kittson County. She said Hanson possessed the man’s vehicle and dog.
Hanson, who allegedly sounded as if she was under the influence of drugs, then spoke on the phone with Thompson, saying she wanted to talk to him in person. She, too, mentioned something about having the man’s car and dog.
About a minute after their mom called the sheriff’s office, Hanson’s sister called 911, saying her sister had apparently shot the man. She wanted someone to check on him.
Hallock Police Chief Mike Docken, Sheriff Matt Vig and two deputies went to the man’s Hallock house, where they found him deceased at about 1:34 p.m. Thursday. He was lying partially on a couch and the floor. They observed a significant amount of blood on his head, around his head and on the floor. A semiautomatic Smith & Wesson handgun was found on the couch a couple of feet from the man’s body. A casing was found on the floor next to the couch. No one else was found at the home.
Thompson, the chief deputy, arrived at the home of Hanson’s mom at about 1:39 p.m. Thursday. Hanson was outside when he arrived. He soon informed her that she was under arrest for homicide. Hanson allegedly told Thompson that he had lost weight. She didn’t make any sense, asking “what all the sugar beets were doing on the ground,” according to the complaint. Her family told Thompson that Hanson was “completely delusional from using drugs.”
When again asked if she knew why she was under arrest, Hanson allegedly said it was because she had shot the chief deputy and she was sorry.
Law enforcement later interviewed the man who said he had witnessed the shooting.