The man armed with an AK-47 rifle who terrorized a South Minneapolis neighborhood overnight Friday was identified as Nathan Maelstrom Matz, 40, of Minneapolis.

He was shot by police after he fired the assault-style rifle inside his apartment building and holed up in a stairwell. He is still hospitalized in stable condition at Hennepin County Medical Center. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating the officer-involved shooting, said that he is expected to survive his injuries.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara gave the following details of the incident in an earlier press release:

It began Friday night about 10:50 p.m. when several people called 911 to report a man with a shotgun walking near the 4000 block of Minnehaha Avenue South. When officers arrived, they could not find the man. Several hours later, at about 4:40 a.m., several people in the same area called 911 to report shots fired. Many of the callers live in an apartment building on that block and said they could hear shots being fired inside their building, someone knocking on their doors and breaking glass.

When officers arrived, they found bullet holes in the front door of the apartment building and shell casings on the floor. Inside an open apartment door, they found a shotgun on the floor. Officers heard more gunfire and immediately evacuated residents of the building. The shooter holed up in a stairwell during the evacuation and while SWAT and negotiation teams moved in. During this time, the man continued to fire rounds from the rifle.

About 5:30 a.m., an officer armed with a rifle shot the gunman and police were able to enter the stairwell and disarm him of the assault weapon and a .45-caliber handgun. Authorities later found a backpack with additional ammunition and loaded magazines in the stairwell. The man, who was wearing a military-style flak vest, was identified as a resident of the building.

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