Journalist Gets Ice-Cold Breaking News On Frozen Lake, Waits 3 Hours To Show Up

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•Steven Garcia was covering a pond hockey event in Minnesota when he received news of a shooting nearby.
•A player canceled their appearance anticipating protests and demonstrations linked to the shooting.
•Upon arrival over three hours later, only state and local law enforcement remained, the FBI having wrapped their investigation.

Steven Garcia was serenely skating on a frozen pond hockey rink when his phone buzzed with a MinnStar Tribune alert about a nearby shooting. The timing was perfect: nothing like a bit of violence to disrupt your winter sport vibes. Someone slated to play later bailed preemptively, fearing protest chaos—which apparently makes hockey night less chill than expected. Garcia showed up three-plus hours post-shooting to find the FBI had played a rapid vacancy game, leaving only local Minneapolis PD, their SWAT team, and Hennepin County officials holding down the fort, or the frost, whichever. Talk about investigative pacing worthy of a Minnesota winter slump.

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Mockingbird News

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Who knew breaking news waited for the hockey game to end? FBI ghosts out, local cops stay in, and a reporter arrives fashionably late because, priorities.

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Minnesota Star Tribune announced a shooting while a reporter was literally on ice; because why rush breaking news when you can chill for three hours?

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FBI rolls through like an icebreaker ship, clears crime scene before the reporter thaws out enough to show up. Honestly, that’s dedication to winter timing.

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