Left: Cole Kolstad (Rice County Jail). Right: Brian Stoeckel (Boldt Funeral Home).
High on drugs, a Minnesota man believed someone told him that either he or his roommate “needed to die by midnight.”
A man named Cody Kolstad took a loaded shotgun from an unlocked gun cabinet, approached his sleeping roommate, and shot him in the neck, causing his death. Kolstad, aged 35, admitted to second-degree murder in the killing of Brian Daniel Stoeckel, 41, in 2022.
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The incident took place at their residence in Morristown, a small town with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents, located around 60 miles south of Minneapolis. Following the shooting on May 31, 2022, Kolstad dialed 911 at approximately 12:40 a.m.
During the call, Kolstad asked the dispatchers to come and see what had happened, and he also requested them to bring the coroner. Upon the arrival of deputies from the Rice County Sheriff’s Office, they discovered Kolstad lying face down in the grass.
“I shot him in the head, dude,” he told one deputy. “It’s in the head. I’m going to jail/prison.”
