Digi key fargo11/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Benitez-Estremera then goes to his car and washes his hands with water from a jug in his trunk.īenitez-Estremera’s girlfriend, who worked at Digi-Key, is seen exiting the building about ten minutes after the attack ends and getting into Benitez-Estremera’s car, which then leaves the property. In his final attempt to get away, Opdahl is seen running down a sidewalk on the building’s east side and Benitez-Estremera picking up a broken sign-post and using it to hit Opdahl even after Opdahl falls and becomes motionless. Opdahl is seen attempting to protect himself from the blows and trying to go back into the building numerous times during the attack but being prevented from doing so by Benitez-Estremera. When Opdahl tries to re-enter the building, the footage shows Benitez-Estremera grab him by the neck and slam him into the windshield of the car, then punch, kick, and stomp on him repeatedly for over two minutes. Investigators found articles of clothing in a garbage can nearby with blood on them, and a blood trail going from Opdahl’s body to the parking lot and near Digi-Key’s public entrance.Īdam said a review of the company’s surveillance cameras shows Opdahl, who appeared to have exited the building for a smoke and coffee break, standing near Benitez-Estremera’s car for about ten seconds before Benitez-Estremera exits the car and approaches Opdahl, knocking the cigarette and a cup out of his hands, and punching him. There was a large amount of blood coming from Opdahl’s head and a sign-post with blood on it laying across his legs. When a sheriff’s deputy arrived, he determined that Ohdahl was dead. The employee discovered Opdahl’s body when she went out for a smoke break. In court documents, Thief River Falls Police Chief Marissa Adam said the initial 911 came in from a Digi-Key employee just after 10:00 p.m. The victim has been identified as Steven Opdahl of Oklee, Minn. The statement of probable cause attached to the criminal complaint against 32-year-old Benitez-Estremera says he admitted in an interview with officers to assaulting a person he did not know but who he believed to be “contaminated and needed to be taken out of the system.” (KFGO) – Prosecutors in Pennington County, Minnesota have filed formal charges against Jorge Benitez-Estremera in the beating death of an employee of Digi-Key Electronics on the company’s property in Thief River Falls on Tuesday night. ![]() Execs who consistently make decisions in a vacuum that hurt quality of life for employees (mandatory overtime, the elimination of remote work, the elimination of "cost of living" pay increases during the highest inflation in decades, reduction of annual raises as well, dilution and elimination of high-skill - more.THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. ![]() This is pretty much your bread and butter job for anyone looking for opportunity in rural northern MN, this gets your foot in the door for a decent paying job, but there is little room for meaningful improvement when you cap out at ~55k per year - that is, as long as you're willing to deal with: meaningless, repetitive, corporate work that will not help you achieve any useful skills other than being capable of performing entry level labor, all trainable within 2-4 weeks an executive team that always uses toxic positivity in their statements then consistently doesn't follow through on improving anything or listening to employee feedback - rather, makes things worse scaling pay and opportunities up to about ~55`k per year then it's all horizontal movement (except engineering, software, and upper management) Quality of work, pay, and incentives to stay with the company has hit abysmal lows over the past 4 years because of the new terrible leadership in the executive team and their decisions. With its' explosive growth, has gone "full corporate" and focused on profits, turnover, and quantity. This company is based in the small town that it originated in, but has lost its small town and employee focused vision. ![]()
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