Fatal Encounters

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Christopher Roger Swanson

Name: Christopher Roger Swanson
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 01/07/2002
Location: Interstate 35 and Scanlon way
Cloquet, Minnesota, 55720
County: Carlton
Agency: Duluth Police Department, Carlton Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Suicide
Media summary: Swanson a history of mental illness, whose mother feared he was a ``powder keg," died Monday night after a 20-mile police chase resulted in his car leaving Interstate 35 and landing in a swamp near the Scanlon exit. He apparently shot himself before crashing.
Unique ID: 1412

News article: Link






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