>On January 26, 2009, Gagne got into an altercation with Helmut Gutmann, a 97-year-old resident of the Bloomington, Minnesota nursing care facility where they both resided. According to Gutmann's widow, who was not present during the altercation, Gagne picked Gutmann up and hurled him to the floor, then broke his hip by pulling back on his body. "'The attack happened quickly while the men were at a table', Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said. 'It was more like "a push and a shove" and it caused Gutmann to fall.'"[12]
>Neither man had any recollection of the incident.[13] Gutmann was admitted to the hospital, and died on February 14 from complications of the injury.[14] On February 25, 2009, the older man's death was officially ruled a homicide by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.[13]
