(Algona)– A Minnesota teenager accused of killing two clerks at convenience stores in Algona and Humboldt was on probation for theft.
Michael Richard Swanson is charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery.
Authorities allege the 17-year-old from St. Louis Park, Minnesota walked into to convenience stores Monday night, demanding cash and in one case cigarettes. They say he shot the clerks even after they complied.
Authorities have not said why Swanson was in Iowa.
Officials in Minnesota say he had just been released from the Hennepin County Home School after serving more than 100 days for a felony motor vehicle theft charge to which he pleaded guilty in July.
(From the Associated Press.).
