Updated at: 03/01/2010 6:00 PM | KSAX.com
By: Megan Matthews

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Apparent Shooting Leaves Fergus Falls Woman Dead: Man in Custody

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - Devin Gray is in custody for pending charges of 2nd degree manslaughter Monday after a gun exchange turned deadly.

Amanda Kemmer was killed Friday night at the Lakeview Estates mobile home park, according to Fergus Falls Police Department.

Gray, 24, was taken into custody Monday afternoon.  He remains in the Otter Tail County Jail.  The court date has not been set.

Police are still investigating the incident, which happened around 10:30 p.m. Friday.  When police arrived on scene the 29-year-old woman was dead.

"It's a sense of shame.  I don't know all of what really happened," an anonymous resident of the mobile home park said.

Kemmer was shot and killed in the lost 17 mobile home; however, she didn't live in the mobile park.  Police said she was just visiting.

"We responded and there were several people at this residence," Fergus Falls Police Chief Tim Brennan said.

Chief Brennan said Devin Gray was at the gathering and had a gun. 

"He had taken it out and displayed it, and the victim had actually taken the fire arm away from him as a matter of safe keeping," Brennan said.

Later on Kemmer went into another part of the trailer home, and Gray followed.

"He had pursued her there...or followed her to retain the firearm," Chief Brennan said.

That's when the exchange happened, and Kemmer was shot in the chest.  The owner of the trailer home called 911, but Kemmer died before police arrived.

"It scares me knowing that my teenage daughter is here...that night she was here alone," an anonymous resident said. "Locking your doors a little more and wondering what's coming in and out of this trailer park."

Police are still investigating the exact details of what happened, but they don't think Kemmer was shot intentionally.

"We don't think it was intentional.  We don't think either the victim or the person that was there intentionally shot her," Chief Brennan said.

Written for the web by Megan Matthews

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