Two men rob the Shenandoah Pharmacy on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. Police officers Carl A. Johnson and C. E. Bettinger shoot twenty-one-year-old Eddie Larson after he fires at them from behind a counter. Johnson wounds nineteen-year-old Fred Sammler, who is rifling through the cash register. Larson dies shortly after arriving at General Hospital, and Sammler later admits that he and Larson had committed several holdups earlier that evening.