A suburban Minneapolis woman has been indicted for her alleged role in the incident that claimed the lives of two police officers and a paramedic in a brutal shooting that took place in February. She is being charged for helping Shannon Cortez Gooden obtain the firearms he used to gun down the three first responders.
The Justice Department announced the arrest of Ashley Anne Dyrdahl of Burnsville, Minnesota, on Thursday.
According to court documents, between September 21, 2023, and January 25, 2024, Ashley Anne Dyrdahl, 35, conspired with Shannon Cortez Gooden to place firearms in Gooden’s hands, despite the fact Gooden could not legally own or possess firearms. On February 18, 2024, Gooden used the firearms that Dyrdahl supplied to murder two police officers and a firefighter paramedic, and injure a third officer, during an armed stand-off with law enforcement officers who were…