Stabbing suspect has criminal past

BLOOMINGTON (AP) — The man suspected of fatally stabbing another passenger on a light rail train in a Minneapolis suburb has past convictions for assault and disorderly conduct, court records show.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said Friday that the 67-year-old suspect has not been formally charged in the attack. He was being held in the Hennepin County Jail on a possible murder charge.

Metro Transit officials say the suspect began arguing with another passenger about 1 a.m. Thursday on a Blue Line train that had departed from the Mall of America station.

Authorities say the argument escalated to a physical fight and the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed 45-year-old Anthony Demetrius Watson of Minneapolis. Watson died at the Hennepin County Medical Center.

Metro psychiatrist pleads guilty

HASTINGS (AP) — A Twin Cities psychiatrist has pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a woman who sought help for past sexual assaults.

Gavin Meany, 38, of Apple Valley entered the plea Thursday to four counts of felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Dakota County District Court.

A criminal complaint says the woman began seeing Meany at a St. Louis Park clinic because of past trauma that involved prior sexual assaults from her youth, as well as domestic violence from a prior partner.

The complaint says the two had sexual contact beginning in May 2017 to this past August.

“Criminal activity of this nature is a significant breach of trust by a psychotherapist as to any patient,” Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom said in a statement Thursday.

Sentencing is scheduled for April 20.

Paralyzed player hired by Kings

ST. LOUIS PARK (AP) — A former Minnesota high school hockey player paralyzed during a game in 2011 says he has achieved a dream of working in the NHL.

Jack Jablonski tweeted Thursday that he has a job as a content coordinator with the Los Angeles Kings working in podcasting, radio and TV.

Jablonski recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a major in communications and interned with the Kings before he was hired full time.

“Thank u to all who have helped me,” Jablonski tweeted.

Jablonski was a student at Benilde-St. Margaret’s School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, when he injured his spinal cord injury in a game on Dec. 30, 2011. He was hit from behind and sent head-first into the boards.