Charges: Shoplifting suspect delivered several strikes to Roseville officer's head, injuring him

Yahoo

07-03-2025

Charges say a Roseville police officer took repeated strikes to the head from a man he was trying to arrest Wednesday for stealing from Walmart.
The officer was called to the store and met with loss‐prevention staff, who had detained Collin Scott Magnuson, 31, of Minneapolis, on suspicion of theft.
When told he was under arrest, Magnuson became 'uncooperative and physically aggressive' with the officer, who then grabbed onto his arm, the criminal complaint says. Magnuson used his weight to 'charge' and push toward the officer, who brought him to the ground.
Magnuson swung his arms toward the officer's face, hitting him near his eye with a closed fist. He ripped the officer's radio off his vest, and had one of his hands around the back of the officer's neck, the complaint says.
Magnuson continued swinging at the officer's face and thrashing his legs as the officer tried to get control of his arms. Magnuson's knee struck the officer on the left side of his face, causing him to become dizzy and 'lose a sense of his surroundings,' the complaint states. 'The next thing the officer could remember was a (a man) asking him if he needed help.'
The man had seen the assault and took hold of Magnuson's wrist, but Magnuson tried to bite the officer's hand and punch him again, the complaint says.
The officer then used his taser on Magnuson, who laughed and said, 'I am so (expletive) scared of your taser.' He held Magnuson to the ground until other officers arrived and helped get him into custody.
Walmart's surveillance footage showed Magnuson assaulting the officer, who felt dazed and blurry and had a 'pounding headache from receiving repeated strikes,' the charges state. His left temple had begun to swell.
Roseville Deputy Police Chief Joe Adams said Friday that the officer, who did not want to be identified, continues to experience concussion symptoms and has been told to take some time off work.
The assault was the fourth against a Roseville officer since Jan. 15, Adams said, adding 'that's an anomaly for us.'
Magnuson faces one count each of third- and fourth-degree assault, both felonies. He went before a judge Friday in a first appearance on the charges and remains jailed in lieu of $40,000 bail.
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Court records show Magnuson was put on unsupervised probation for one year on April 11 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and fourth-degree criminal damage to property in St. Louis County in connection with an October 2023 incident in the lobby of a Duluth apartment building where he lived at the time. Witnesses said he yelled at a man and then became 'extremely upset and agitated' and threw tables and chairs.
Magnuson's criminal record includes disorderly conduct convictions in 2016 and 2017. Magnuson has an open St. Louis County case from June that says Duluth officers were called to the Fond-du-Luth Casino on May 31 for a welfare check and saw him charge at a man unprovoked. The two then fought on the ground before officers broke it up. Magnuson was charged with fifth-degree assault and in January pleaded guilty to an amended charge of disorderly conduct. His sentencing is set for April 3.