On the evening of January 8, 2024, 22-year-old Shellby Marie Trettel was shot and killed while working the front desk at the Super 8 hotel in Cloquet, Minnesota. A fellow employee placed a 911 call around 6:30 p.m. after finding Trettel appearing to have been attacked; she was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.Trottel had worked at the motel since her teens. During the same incident officers found a second victim, 35-year-old Patrick Jeffrey Roers of Deer River, slumped in his vehicle in the hotel parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds.

Authorities initially treated the scene as an active shooter situation and issued a temporary shelter-in-place for Cloquet.Surveillance footage later showed the shooter also deceased on the hotel grounds. The suspected gunman, identified as 32-year-old Nicholas Elliot Lenius, was found with a gun and an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators say there was no known connection between Lenius and the victims and that he was under the influence of meth; no arrests have been made.

Does anyone have information about Shellby Trettel’s last shift or who might have seen her at the hotel that evening?