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72-year-old shot dead by caretaker, MN family says. ‘Someone he called a friend'

A 72-year-old man was shot and killed with his own rifle by a live-in caretaker, Minnesota police and family say. Jacob John Audie, 36, called 911 before 9 p.m. on Friday, April 11, and told police he had shot his roommate inside their St. Paul apartment, the Dakota County Attorney's Office said in an April 14 news release. Police arrested Audie in the parking lot then went into the apartment to find Michael Schille dead in a back bedroom, prosecutors said. He was sitting on a couch with a gunshot wound to the face, clutching a TV remote in his hand, reported. Investigators pronounced Schille dead at the scene. Audie was more than a roommate, according to police. He looked after Schille and kept their apartment clean, acting as a caretaker during the two years the men lived together, KSTP reported citing charging documents. Police say Audie killed Schille with an AR-15, which they located in the living room. A spent rifle casing was also found on the couch, the DA's office said. The rifle belonged to Schille, KSTP reported. Schille's daughters said he was a veteran and a loving father, and his killing 'doesn't make sense,' KARE reported. 'Yesterday was so hard for me. It's the day my father was murdered by someone he called a friend. I've been running from the pain all day,' his daughter, Andrea Schille, wrote in a Facebook post. 'But now reality is setting in (and) it has been so hard. I love you so much, miss your laugh, your jokes. Why did he murder you? Why did he call you a friend if he hated you?' Officials have not said what may have motivated Audie. Schille's cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head, according to the district attorney's office. Audie was taken into custody, and his bail is set at $1 million.