“A northwestern Minnesota woman is dead after being stabbed by her neighbor Monday night, according to the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office identified the victim as 53-year-old Dawn Louise Swenson of Bagley. Christopher James Colgrove, 27, of Bagley has been booked into the Clearwater County Jail and will be arraigned on a second-degree murder charge on Wednesday” the Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports.

“Around 8:30 p.m. Monday, officers from the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office and the Bagley Police Department responded to a medical emergency following a dispute in the 14000 block of 336th Street in Bagley. According to the sheriff, officers made contact with Colgrove, who became uncooperative, and one of the officers tried to deploy a Taser stun gun. ‘It malfunctioned. It didn’t even deploy at that point,’ Sheriff Darin Halverson said. Colgrove ran away. When searching the street for him, officers heard a woman inside a house yelling and witnessed a struggle between the woman and Colgrove. They believe he got in through an unlocked door, and then locked the door behind him. Officers then attempted to subdue Colgrove with a Taser, with the victim in between. ‘The Taser was deployed and it kind of had an effect for a second or two, then the probe fell out,’ explained Halverson, who said Colgrove was extremely high on methamphetamine. ‘That’s when the knife came out,’ Halverson said. Swenson was stabbed in the neck and chest.Colgrove ran out of the house and into a wooded area.Officers provided first aid to Swenson, who was taken to the Bagley hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Authorities searched for Colgrove through the night and found him when he returned to his home just before 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.