On the evening of January 8, 2024, 22-year-old Shelby Marie Trettel was fatally shot while working at the Super 8 hotel in Cloquet, Minnesota. A 911 call around 6:30 p.m. reported that an employee had been attacked; Trettel was found with a gunshot wound, taken to a local hospital, and pronounced dead. Surveillance footage and the investigation indicate 32-year-old Nicholas Elliot Lenius of Ramsey, Minnesota, shot Trettel. Police also found a second victim, 35-year-old Patrick Jeffrey Roers of Deer River, dead from a gunshot in the hotel parking lot.

Law enforcement located Lenius on the hotel property and found him with a self-inflicted gunshot wound; a firearm was nearby. Investigators used surveillance to confirm Lenius was the shooter in both homicides. Family and friends remembered Trettel as kindhearted and compassionate; a candlelight vigil was held outside the Super 8. The motive remains unclear and investigators have conducted interviews and processed evidence. If anyone has information about Shelby, Patrick, or the events that night, please come forward.