10/29/2022
Body camera footage shows Rochester Police officer fatally shoot ax-wielding man
The attorney’s office reviewed the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s (BCA) investigation of the incident and did not find evidence to support criminal charges against officer Michael Bottcher for fatally shooting Joshua Hippler on July 30, a news release says.Â
Before the shooting, at 11 p.m. on July 29, a man with an ax robbed a Domino’s Pizza in Rochester and then fled in a van, Mower County Attorney Kristen Nelson said in a letter to the BCA.
At about 12:45 a.m. on July 30, Bottcher saw the van from the robbery, witnessed the driver making an illegal turn, and then stopped the vehicle on the southbound ramp from Highway 63 to Highway 52.
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