A Minnesota man will spend the rest of his days in prison for shooting nearly 30 rounds at seven police officers serving a narcotics search warrant at his home in 2023.
Karl Holmberg, 66, was sentenced to 76 1/2 years in prison for shooting at the cops, striking five of them, at his home in the 200 block of 190th Ave NE in Glendorado Township, which is some 60 miles northwest of Minneapolis. A jury convicted Holmberg in August of seven counts each of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault of a police officer, along with a possession of methamphetamine charge.
Officers entered his home and knocked on Holmberg’s bedroom door on Oct. 12, 2023. That’s when he unloaded 28 shots from a high-powered assault rifle “literally emptying a magazine,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum. One officer was struck in the arm, another in the chest and hip and a third in the right hand. Holmberg hit two more cops in their bulletproof vests, “narrowly escaping serious injury,” prosecutors wrote. Two other officers were at the scene but not hit by the shots…