On December 13, 1979, Minneapolis Police Sergeant David Ward Mack, 43, was shot multiple times while serving a warrant at a Pillsbury Avenue South residence. The shooter, identified as Riley B. Housley III, wounded Sergeant Mack and another officer, Robert Skomra. Mack was left in a coma for two years and, after regaining consciousness, was a quadriplegic who could not speak and required constant care.

Sergeant Mack endured complications related to his 1979 injuries for seven years and died on November 2, 1986, from those wounds. Housley was convicted in 1980 of first-degree aggravated assault for the shootings, but the Minnesota Supreme Court later overturned that conviction after Housley argued he believed his home was being broken into; he was never charged with Mack’s death.

Riley B. Housley III died in February 2018 from blunt force injuries; his death was ruled a homicide. Does anyone have further information about the 1979 incident or the legal proceedings that followed?