Burnsville Police Justified In March Shooting

Three Burnsville police officers were legally justified in the shooting of a suspect in a McDonald's parking lot back in March, according to a Dakota County grand jury.

In a report from KSTP, back on March 17, officers Taylor Jacobs, John Mott and Maksim Yakovlev were among the five officers who responded to a report of a male with a knife in a McDonald's parking lot.

Officers observed the man, sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle, waving a knife. He was later identified as 38-year-old Map Kong of Chaska. Officers made several pleas to Kong to drop the knife. They then used a Taser on him, but that did not have an effect and Kong exited the vehicle with the knife. The officers then fired their weapons. Kong died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. A toxicology report revealed Kong tested positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the investigation.