CUSHING, Minn. (AP) -- Morrison County authorities were holding a 27-year-old man after finding the bodies of his parents, who apparently had been shot to death in Cushing.
Sheriff Michel Wetzel said the man called the sheriff's office before dawn Monday to say he had shot two people. Deputies found the bodies of Roger Wojciechowski, 64, and Jeanne Wojciechowski, 57, dead in their home of apparent gunshot wounds.
The caller was arrested several blocks away and was being held in the Morrison County jail pending formal charges.
Wetzel said the Wojciechowskis had called authorities on Dec. 27, reporting that their son was behaving bizarrely and had ``gotten extremely religious,' quoting the Bible and talking about Satan and the devil, Wetzel said.
``It was very out of character for him,' Wetzel said the parents reported.
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A deputy who spoke with the parents and the son determined he was not a danger to himself or others and did not have cause to take him into custody, Wetzel said. But the deputy helped persuade the son to go with his parents to a nearby hospital to be evaluated.
The hospital apparently also saw no ``red flags' and the man was not admitted, Wetzel said.
On Christmas Day, the son was released from the county jail after serving several months for a drunken-driving offense and went to stay with his parents in their home, Wetzel confirmed.
He had been convicted of several drunken-driving offenses in Stearns and Morrison counties and had an escape from custody conviction in Stearns County, according to records available on the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Web site.
Cushing is about 26 miles southwest of Brainerd in central Minnesota.
