{"id":630,"date":"2008-06-25T14:20:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/dying-for-porn\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:20:59","slug":"dying-for-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/25\/dying-for-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying For Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

from TwinCities.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Disgruntled porn store owner dies in standoff<\/h1>\n

Little Falls gunman had history of disputes with county officials<\/p>\n

By Tad Vezner\u00a0
\ntvezner@pioneerpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>Article Last Updated:\u00a006\/25\/2008 07:11:09 AM CDT<\/span><\/p>\n

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A man who lost numerous legal battles with Minnesota’s Morrison County over his now-closed adult entertainment businesses was fatally shot after he walked into a county board meeting Tuesday and held at least seven people hostage.<\/p>\n

Gordon Wheeler Sr., 60, of Little Falls, was wounded after the county sheriff, a sheriff’s lieutenant and a state trooper opened fire, minutes after he took several county officials hostage as they were wrapping up a board meeting.<\/p>\n

Wheeler died later at St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls, about 100 miles northwest of St. Paul.<\/p>\n

It was unclear whether Wheeler returned fire or if he turned the gun on himself, said Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent for the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.<\/p>\n

“He talked the whole while, he never quit talking for at least 10 minutes, until the climax,” Wenzel said.\u00a0“He looked to me like a farmer; he didn’t seem out of the ordinary. I thought, ‘Oh, maybe it was somebody with news or something to say.’<\/p>\n

“He had something to say, I guess.”<\/p>\n

Wheeler had owned a few adult businesses in the county. In 2003, the county tightened its land-use ordinance for sex-related businesses and shut down an adult book and video store Wheeler owned near Swanville called Lookin’ Fine Smut and Porno, according to reports by the St. Cloud Times.<\/p>\n

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