Murder charge filed in Allison Lussier’s death

Allison Lussier’s family always believed her boyfriend was responsible for the 47-year-old Indigenous woman’s death and that Minneapolis police mishandled the investigation.

They never stopped pressuring authorities to make an arrest.

At a news conference at the Hennepin County Government Center on Thursday, they heard the news they’d waited two and a half years to hear when County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced that her office has charged Charles Foss, Lussier’s boyfriend, with murder.

Lussier was found dead in her Minneapolis apartment in February 2024. Foss, 36, faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of stalking.

Lussier’s family said from the start they believed Foss could have been responsible for her death. In the day...