The officer saw a pistol in Nixon’s left hand and drew his handgun in response. The officer retreated down the steps while ordering Nixon to drop his weapon.

Nixon put the gun to his head and again said repeatedly to the officer “just shoot me.” Nixon went back in the home. The officer kicked at the door and confirmed it was locked.

A police emergency response team arrived outside. Nixon opened his door, said “she is not OK” and made other comments about him shooting her. While standing at the top of the stairs, he fired one shot in the air. An emergency response team member fired a less lethal round that sent Nixon falling back into his home, but he managed to lock himself back in his residence.

After three hours of negotiation, Nixon put down his gun, walked out of the apartment and surrendered. Police entered the home and found Broyld on her back on a couch. She had been shot 10 times in the back.

Court records in Minnesota show that Nixon’s criminal history includes a conviction in 2021 for carrying a gun in public without a permit.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In July 2022, the nationwide phone number 988 was established to give people experiencing suicidal thoughts or a mental health or substance-use crisis to speak, text or chat with a trained counselor.

If the verdict stands and the case proceeds to sentencing, Trump’s punishments would range from a fine or probation to up to four years in prison — but it’s unlikely he’d spend any time behind bars for a first-time conviction involving charges in the lowest tier of felonies.

Some of Trump’s supporters embraced his conviction, showing up to campaign rallies in T-shirts with slogans like ”Free Trump” and ”I’m Voting For the Convicted Felon.”

Because it is a state case, Trump would not be able to pardon himself once he returns to office. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes.

The hush money case was the only one of Trump’s four criminal indictments to go to trial.

Special counsel Jack Smith is taking steps to wind down his two federal cases against the president-elect. One centers on Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, the other on allegations that he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. A separate state election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, is largely on hold.

Trump, a Republican, has decried the hush money verdict as a ”rigged, disgraceful” result. He has claimed, without evidence, that the case brought by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg was part of a Democrat-led ”witch hunt” meant to harm his presidential campaign.

A 39-year-old man has agreed to a $50,000 payment to settle his lawsuit that accused a Willmar police officer of an unlawful arrest based on race, the man’s legal representative announced Tuesday.

Christopher Flatten and the city were sued in June by Derrick Gilbert, of Willmar, on allegations that he was illegally arrested two years earlier.

The “walking while Black” arrest, as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called it, occurred when Flatten assumed Gilbert, who was walking to work, was another man, despite Flatten being unable to see Gilbert’s face, the suit alleged.

The ACLU said Flatten assumed Gilbert was another Black man he knew who was seven years younger, 4 inches shorter, 90 pounds heavier and has a much lighter complexion. The ACLU also alleged that Flatten knew the other man through “multiple interactions [and] knew what he looked like.”

In response to the suit at the time it was filed, the defense said Flatten “was acting in his official capacity as a … police officer and performing discretionary acts in the scope of his duties with a good faith belief his conduct was lawful, constitutional, proper and pursuant to probable cause.”

Gilbert said in a statement released Tuesday by the ACLU that “it was horrible to be walking to work and be accused of being a completely different Black man. I hope this will stop other officers from doing this to other Black men in Minnesota.”

ACLU attorney Ian Bratlie also issued a statement Tuesday that read, “We’re happy to have helped Derrick and sorry that he had to go through this. Black men should not have to worry about being over-policed in our society. It’s unjust, evil and un-American.”

The attorney representing the city and Flatten has been asked why the defendants chose to settle the suit, rather than go on trial.