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there's a saying here in Minnesota Minnesota nice and that Minnesota nice only goes so far and
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Heidi ferus she went all the way she was genuine and she loved deep she definitely lived a life of love that was
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the mark that she left and that's hard to let go you know this is a a terrible terrible incident you know we're hoping
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to find other physical evidence that might help us lead us in a direction toward a suspect the morning of April
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25th 2010 at 6:30 a.m. Heidi Fergus calls 911 someone's trying to break into my house
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she tells the state patrol dispatcher that someone is trying to break into her house and she's trying to give her
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address 1794 ha while she's on the phone you can hear a loud noise and the phone goes dead well I
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don't know where she went there 61 approximately a minute later Nicholas Fergus calls 911 says that he and his
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wife have both been shot brok me okay are you inan Paul sir St Paul fire paramedics took Nick out to
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the ambulance and transported him to Region's hospital he had been shot in the leg Heidi was struck in the back as
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she was trying to flee towards the kitchen it was a shotgun blast that killed her right away the shotgun was
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laying inside front door area there's a little foyer Nick gave a brief story he heard
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somebody fiddling around with the door and that he then armed himself with a shotgun and that Nick and the Intruder
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struggled over the shotgun the responding officers uh went up and down the block try to talk to
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neighbors I was next to Door house sitting when the crime happened really all I heard was kind of this egg izing
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yell of you shot her you shot me it never felt right the story never made sense to me he tells investigators
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that he grabbed a shotgun loaded it with two shells and then proceeded to have Heidi go down the stairs in front of him
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towards the very door that this alleged burglar was at why you would send the unarmed person
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down in front of you is beyond me to me there were only two people in that house
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when Heidi was killed and they were Nick and Heidi in order to believe that Nick
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killed Heidi you have to believe that a good man with no History of Violence killed the woman that he loved more than
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anything in life for no reason that's what you have to believe we can't get there