Man sentenced to 76 years in prison for shooting 5 Minnesota officers
Karl Thomas Holmberg, 66, of Princeton, Minnesota, shot the five officers as they tried to execute a knock-and-announce narcotics search warrant in October 2023. All five officers survived.
By Trent Abrego
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
FOLEY, Minn. — A Princeton, Minnesota, man was sentenced to 76-and-a-half years in prison on Friday, Oct. 13, for shooting five law enforcement officers in a 2023 standoff at his home.
Karl Thomas Holmberg, 66, was sentenced in Benton County Court to three 306-month consecutive terms.
A jury found Holmberg guilty in August after a nine-day trial in August on seven counts of first-degree attempted murder, seven counts of first-degree assault using a dangerous weapon against a law enforcement officer and second-degree possession of a controlled substance. Holmberg also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm after a previous conviction.
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