JOEL LAFROMBOISE
Moorhead officials address criticism of investigation 
Prosecutors and Moorhead police on Monday took special care to address criticisms of the Joel LaFromboise investigation head-on, saying race didn’t play a factor and the delay in releasing details of the shooting was proper.
By Dave Roepke , December 22, 2009
No charges will be filed in fatal shooting
Authorities say evidence matches Allen’s storyThe man who shot and killed a 17-year-old who broke into his Moorhead apartment while drunk last summer acted in self-defense and won’t face charges, officials said.
By Dave Roepke , December 22, 2009
- Melton announces he won't file charges
- Joel LaFromboise
- Ralph LaFromboise
- Clay County Attorney Brian Melton on Minnesota self-defense laws and why he didn’t file charges against Vernon Allen
- Melton on Joel LaFromboise's toxicology report
- Talk about this topic
- Moorhead officials address criticism of investigation
Outstate crime lab shows lag
Results from Bemidji several weeks slower than from St. Paul
By Dave Roepke , December 13, 2009
Father of slain son hoping for charges
The first Thanksgiving Ralph LaFromboise spent without his son was tough.
The first Christmas without him will be even worse.
By Dave Roepke , December 13, 2009
Autopsy still pending in Moorhead shooting
When 17-year-old Joel LaFromboise was shot dead in a stranger’s apartment in June, Moorhead Police Chief David Ebinger said an autopsy would take two to four weeks.
By Dave Roepke , November 10, 2009
Moorhead intruder autopsy results withheld
Moorhead police say they have the autopsy of the 17-year-old boy fatally shot in a stranger’s apartment in June but won’t release it.
By Dave Roepke , September 17, 2009
Autopsy stalled in Moorhead shooting
Moorhead police may be waiting two more months for autopsy results for Joel LaFromboise, a 17-year-old who was shot and killed in June after wandering into a stranger’s apartment.
By Dave Roepke , August 15, 2009
Forum editorial: Smoking defenders win spurge
LEAFY SPURGE: To smoking defenders who still have not gotten the message that smoking and secondhand smoke bans are the law of the land because the people of the land have voted.
By Forum Editorial Board , July 06, 2009
A cry for justice comes from grave
From the grave comes a cry for justice, not the justice of a trigger-happy cowboy, but a cry for justice from a civilized society. A young man is dead. Why did this have to happen? Why must this trigger-happy mentality be allowed to go on?
By Eugene Dumont , July 06, 2009
Toxicology reports more than just a test
Circumstances of each case dictate length, complexity of process.Popular crime shows often depict a lab technician whipping out a toxicology result soon after someone has died and quickly telling the investigators exactly what medications or drugs were involved.
July 06, 2009
Maybe tragedy was avoidable
Two weekends before Joel LaFromboise was gunned down, at around 1:30 a.m., a young man barged into my house through the patio door while I was watching TV. I immediately jumped to my feet and confronted the man who responded by backing out into the patio from which he just entered.
By Chris Chastain , July 05, 2009
Shooting stirs old concerns in Moorhead's Romkey Park neighborhood
Eleven years ago tonight, a riot broke out in Moorhead’s Romkey Park neighborhood. Since then, the area has seen little trouble ... until the shooting of Joel LaFromboise.
By Patrick Springer , July 04, 2009
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