On December 13, 2023, Jose De Jesus Diaz Fernandez, a 42-year-old man from Princeton, Minnesota, was shot and killed inside his home on the 7800 block of 309th Avenue Northwest in Spencer Brook Township, Isanti County. The shooting happened about 6:36 a.m. when at least two individuals entered the residence claiming to be police officers. A woman in the house hid with her child after hearing the intruders; she later found Fernandez near the front entry with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Isanti County investigators arrested four people in connection with the killing: Jesse Mateo Rodrigues, Fredy Saavedra Olivar, Abraham Alexander Houle and Jerold Allen Downs. Authorities say the episode was allegedly a staged robbery intended to target a stash house for money and drugs. Olivar reportedly owed Fernandez about $50,000 and is alleged to have hired the others to carry out the scheme; Houle was also shot in the stomach during the incident. Downs has identified Rodrigues as the shooter, while Rodrigues has denied firing a weapon.

What details can anyone add about the early-morning entry or the people who posed as officers?