Beloved Friend And Community Member Killed, Neighborhood Devastated

By Allen Henry, CBS Minnesota

December 11, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police are investigating a stabbing that left a grocery store employee dead.

Police arrived at a grocery store in Loring Park around 1 p.m. on Friday, according to a news release from the Minneapolis Police Department. Friends identified the man as 66-year old Robert Skafte.

"Known him ever since I moved in here 17 years ago. I think he was the neighborhood ambassador, knows everybody. Everybody knows him," said Jon Tevlin, a friend.

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