MINNEAPOLIS — Officials identified the man killed during a shootout where two Hennepin County sheriff's deputies were injured Wednesday in Minnetonka.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said 28-year-old Clint Hoyhtya died from multiple gunshot wounds after officials say he exchanged gunfire with law enforcement while they were serving a warrant at a home Wednesday in Minnetonka. Two deputies were also injured — one was treated on scene, while the other was transported to a hospital.
The hospitalized deputy, later identified as Deputy Christopher Heihn, was released Thursday after Hennepin County sheriff's officials confirmed he was "struck by gunfire."
According to HCSO, Heihn has been working for Hennepin County since 2016, currently with the Enforcement Services Division. He is a 13-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, and also serves on the HCSO Emergency Services Unit and as a range safety officer and firearms instructor.
In a joint press conference Wednesday, officials said deputies were executing a felony level warrant, but they didn't specify who it was for or why they suspected that person would be at the house.
"I can tell you that no incident is the same," Sheriff Dawanna Witt said. "I can tell you that they do their homework before they're executing these dangerous course of their jobs."
That day, someone else was named over police scanner traffic, and KARE 11 found that person does have multiple active arrest warrants. However, we're not naming the individual at this time because investigators have not confirmed the information.
In the meantime, court records show a couple of years ago the homeowner, Thomas Hoyhtya, tried to evict his sister after their mother moved into an assisted living facility. Until then, records say she'd been allowed to stay there rent-free in return for caring for their mother. Eventually, an eviction request filed against the sister and two unnamed people was approved in August of 2022.
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