Darcy Klund biography: 13 things about retired Minneapolis, Minnesota police sergeant

Darcy Duane Klund is an American retired police officer from Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Aside from Minneapolis, he has lived in other areas of Minnesota including Cottage Grove.

Klund has also lived in different parts of Wisconsin, USA including Baldwin, Roberts and Hammond. His wife Jamie Beth Ovadal gave birth to their daughter Alyssa Marie Klund in 1988 and their son Tyler Duane Klund in 1990.

A former vocalist in a Christian music band, Darcy used to sing at wedding and funerals. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In September 1987, he joined the Minneapolis Police Department as a uniform patrol before serving as a narcotics.
2. In October 1994, he became a homicide detective, a police sergeant as well as the Minneapolis Police Department’s uniform patrol supervisor, community response team supervisor and narcotics unit supervisor.
3. From November 2000 to October 2017, he served in the homicide unit of the Minneapolis Police Department.
4. He appeared in “The First 48” Season 8 episode 16 “Smoke/Touch of Evil,” which aired on September 23, 2008, along with his colleagues Erick Fors, Jerry Wallerick and Gerhard Wehr. He appeared in “The First 48” Season 17 episode 15 “Inside the Tape Special#6,” which aired on April 26, 2018, along with his colleagues Robert Dale, Emily Dunphy, Christopher Gaiter, Chris Granger, Jane Moore and Twila Villella.
5. In 2011, he was nominated as an America’s Most Wanted All-Star. His annual salary in that year was $144,064.44.
6. In May 2013, his daughter Alyssa got engaged to Anthony Wittmer.
7. In 2015, he pinned his son Tyler’s new badge during the Minneapolis Police Department’s swearing-in ceremony.
8. He was interviewed in the “Legacy Matters” podcast episode 22, which was released on May 5, 2019.
9. On June 11, 2020, he was one of the 14 Minneapolis Police Department officers who penned an open letter condemning Derek Chauvin, their former colleague who fatally arrested African-American man George Floyd at 3759 Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. On July 14, 2020, Tyler allegedly stomped Damarlo West during an arrest in Minneapolis.
10. On December 30, 2020, he and his fellow Minneapolis Police Department police officers Paul Luther Huynh and Jason Schmidt were involved in the fatal shooting of Somali-American man Dolal Bayle Idd at the Holiday Gas station near East 36th Street and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis.
11. On May 24, 2021, West filed a lawsuit, accusing him of clearing Tyler of wrongdoing by conducting a supervisor use-of-force review on his son. In June 2021, he retired from the Minneapolis Police Department.
12. On August 6, 2021, Dakota County, Minnesota attorney Kathy Keena announced that she has concluded, after a thorough review of the facts surrounding the death of Idd that he, Huynh and Schmidt were legally justified when they used deadly force during the incident on December 30, 2020. On November 30, 2021, U.S. District Judge David Doty rejected the city’s request to dismiss the lawsuit filed by West on May 24, 2021.
13. He was 57 years old when a civil rights lawsuit was filed on October 27, 2022 against him, Huynh, Michael Kennedy, Joseph Brown, Jaclyn Marie Tuma, Jonathan Stalboerger, Matthew Severence, Souphaphone Daoheuang, Kyle Pond and Jacob Spies in Minnesota by Marvin Lewis Chestnut, Lawrence Anthony Barnes, Charles Nguyen Thorstad, Tywan Lamont Walker, Larry Keshwan Mitchell, Robert Bradley Sayers, Nieta Jamil Aki Jackson, Otis Lee Walker and Larry Keshawn Mitchell.