A man is accused of fatally shooting a Castle Rock Township, Minnesota, woman on Christmas Eve, which, according to court documents filed Monday, was her birthday.
The criminal complaint said Dakota County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the shooting at a Castle Rock Township home around 2:23 p.m. They found the man on the second floor of the residence with blood on his hands and the back of his head and the 26-year-old woman lying on the bed in her bedroom. She died at the scene.
According to court documents, the man told the deputies the gun was in “the room” before he was taken to the hospital. Investigators found a handgun and two spent shell casings in the home. One of the casings was near the bed where the woman was found, and the other was underneath her…