The Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victim of Sunday’s homicide as 40-year-old Andrea Elizabeth Broyld of Red Wing.
A preliminary cause of death is homicide by multiple gunshot wounds.
The Red Wing Police Department investigation remains ongoing and active.
According to a criminal complaint, 41 year old Darryl Dion Nixon Jr., 41, called 911 just before 5 p.m. Sunday, crying on the phone and asked for police to come to his duplex on the 1000 block of Putnam Avenue in Red Wing.
Law enforcement later learned Nixon was armed and suicidal, and that a woman inside the home had been shot.
Nixon made remarks about the woman being “gone,” and at one point he stepped outside and fired a gun in the air once before an officer hit him with a less-lethal round and he fell back into the apartment.
While the Goodhue County Emergency Response Team was on the scene, officers at various points saw Nixon hold a gun to his head and repeatedly beg for police to “just shoot me.”
After searching the home, investigators say they found Broyld on the couch with at least 10 gunshot wounds to her chest and abdomen.
Nixon is charged with one count of second-degree murder. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 40 years
The judge set Nixon bail at $1 million with conditions or $2 million without conditions.
He remains in custody at the Goodhue County Jail.
His next court appearance is set for Monday.
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