Star Tribune – The off-duty police officer who stopped a knife-wielding attacker in a St. Cloud mall last September was named officer of the year by the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association.
Jason Falconer ’95, an officer in Avon, Minnesota, received the honor Monday in St. Cloud.
The highest honor bestowed by the association is given annually to an officer who has demonstrated “courage in dangerous or emergency conditions which results in a successful resolution of the situation,” the group’s declaration reads.
Falconer, 44, confronted 20-year-old Somali refugee Dahir Adan and fatally shot the St. Cloud State University student after Adan stabbed 10 people in the Crossroads Center.
