On Friday afternoon, police were called to a Minneapolis grocery store where they found a store clerk impaled by a golf club, local authorities shared.
The Minneapolis Police Department shared in a press release that they responded to the scene at around 1 p.m. on Friday.
According to a report from The Associated Press, the incident took place at Oak Street Grocery.
When officers entered the local business, they found a 66-year-old man behind the counter “with a golf club impaled through his torso,” police shared in a release.
Police said that the worker was in need of “immediate medical aid” and was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
During a press conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara shared that they identified a suspect, who was believed to have collected merchandise from the counter, thanks to a witness from the scene.
“It appears he then went behind the counter and then began to assault and bludgeon the individual behind the counter in a very grotesque way,” O’Hara said.
O’Hara says that police were brought to an apartment near the store, where they found the man barricaded inside.
After a six-hour standoff between the man and police, he was arrested without incident. The department’s bomb squad and negotiators assisted in the standoff, the release shared.
Police said the suspect was a 44-year-old man but did not share his name.
The investigation remains ongoing.