FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - A manslaughter charge is being sought against a man who took to a handgun to a party in Fergus Falls on Friday after a woman who took the gun from him for safety's sake ended up shot.
Fergus Falls police took 24-year-old Devin Edward Gray into custody shortly after noon on suspicion of second-degree manslaughter, said Timothy Brennan, the city's police chief.
Police think that Gray brought a semi-automatic, small-caliber handgun to a party at a mobile home in the Lakeview Estates Mobile Home Park on Friday night.
As he showed it to people, Amanda Kemmer, a Fergus Falls 29-year-old, stepped in to take it as a safety precaution, Brennan said. A short time later, Kemmer was shot with the handgun as Gray was trying to get it back. It wasn't clear if the gun exchange was voluntary, the chief said.
There were seven people at the party at the time, but Kemmer and Gray were alone when the gun went off, Brennan said.
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Initial autopsy reports indicate the single gunshot wound to the chest killed Kemmer, and investigators have no evidence suggesting the shooting was intentional, Brennan said.
