Roseville police officer released from hospital after being shot

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Officer Ryan Duxbury (Roseville Police Department / Supplied)

ROSEVILLE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Roseville Police Officer Ryan Duxbury was released from the hospital on Saturday after being shot while responding to an active shooter near Lake Owasso Tuesday evening.

Video posted to Facebook by the Ramsey County Deputy shows the moments as Officer Duxbury got a hero's sendoff as he was wheeled out of the hospital to a waiting squad. A HealthPartners spokesperson tells FOX 9 Duxbury was discharged around 1:45 p.m.

Roseville police officer released from hospital after being shot

Video from the Ramsey County Deputies' Federation shows Roseville Police Officer Ryan Duxbury being released from Regions Hospital after he was shot earlier this week by a gunman that fired off hundreds of rounds near Lake Owasso on Tuesday.

Friday, police said Officer Duxbury had undergone surgery to remove a bullet that was lodged in his neck after he was shot in the face.

The man who police say fired the bullets, Jesse Werling, died after being shot by two other Roseville police officers. The department says Werling fired about 100 rounds during Tuesday night's incident, striking neighboring homes and vehicles, along with Officer Duxbury.

Court records and police reports show Werling had a history of mental health troubles.

Roseville police officer shot on duty undergoes surgery, continues to recover

Roseville Police Officer Ryan Duxbury underwent surgery Friday and is continuing to recover after he was shot while responding to an incident Tuesday evening, the chief says.

Shooting on Tuesday night

Roseville Police began getting 911 calls around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday from scared neighbors. One reported seeing the suspect holding a scoped rifle.

"When our officers arrived in the area, they immediately came under fire with continuous rifle rounds being fired at the officers and the squad cars," Chief Erika Scheider said, and that officers couldn’t see where the shots were coming from because the suspect was hiding in the heavily wooded yards.

Within minutes, a Roseville officer was hit in the face. Dragged to safety by other officers, he was taken to a hospital.

The gunshots continued sporadically for an hour, hitting more homes and squad cars, when at 8:34 p.m., the suspect was found in a nearby yard.

Suspect in Roseville shootout struggled with mental health

The 53-year-old man accused of opening fire on police officer and neighboring homes this week in Roseville suffered from mental health troubles for years prior to the act of violence on Tuesday, court records show.