Neighbors on Snelling Avenue South in Minneapolis reported escalating domestic tension in the weeks before Memorial Day 2026 between 64-year-old Daniel Carl Krueger and his 41-year-old son, Daniel Everett Krueger. Family members described frequent drinking, physical fights the mother called wrestling matches, and a home in pre-foreclosure that added financial strain. Neighbors also heard a gunshot from the residence before the fatal incident.

On the night of May 25, 2026, the son placed a frantic 911 call saying his father was bleeding heavily and that he had taken a gun from him that went off; officers arriving at the 4000 block of Snelling Avenue South found Daniel Everett Krueger applying pressure to a gunshot wound on his father’s head. The elder Krueger was alive but suffered a non-survivable brain injury and died at a hospital on May 28, 2026. A firearm was recovered at the scene.

Daniel Everett Krueger was arrested and charged with second-degree murder; his initial statements to police were described as disjointed, and he later told his mother from jail he said the shooting was an accident. He was held on $500,000 bail with a court appearance scheduled for June 22, 2026.