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Campus & State
Teenager convicted of father's murder
Eighteen-year-old Jason MacLennan was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder. The jury found him guilty of shooting his father six times in his St. Cloud home in January.
Testimony from MacLennan's friends from St. Cloud Technical High School convinced jurors that the crime was planned in advance. They testified that the defendant wanted to live a rich life by obtaining his father's $1.4 million estate. His father was the vice president of Creative Memories in St. Cloud.
Matt Moeller supplied the weapon and pled to second-degree murder in August.
MacLennan turned 18 in the Stearns County jail and was a high-school junior at the time of the murder. He will now serve a sentence of life imprisonment.
Cold Spring mourns student's funeral
Around 1,500 people filled St. Boniface Catholic Church during Monday's visitation and funeral service for high school senior Aaron Rollins. Students wore T-shirts bearing Aaron's picture, along with his date of birth, death and a special message. Others wore red and black ribbons to honor Aaron and Seth Bartell.
Rollins was killed and Bartell was critically injured last week when a student opened fire at Rocori High School. Hundreds of flowers, cards and pictures have surrounded the high school, church and city of Cold Spring in memory of the victims.
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