"Cloquet Hotel Homicide: Shooter Identified as Police Investigate Motive"

Patrick Jeffrey Roers, a tree excavator visiting Cloquet, was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot, along with the hotel's front desk clerk, by Nicholas Elliot Lenius, who then turned the gun on himself. The shooter had no history of violent crimes, and the police have not publicly identified a motive for the killings.