Woman gets nearly five years for shooting at Eveleth Hells Angels clubhouse

A gunman walked up to the front door of the Hells Angels clubhouse in Eveleth, fired multiple shots, and left behind a scene that investigators said put everyone inside at risk.

Adrien Marie Gunderson, 41, pleaded guilty Feb. 23 to felony drive-by shooting toward an occupied building for the Sept. 2, 2024, attack at 413 Grant Avenue. Surveillance video showed Gunderson getting out of a vehicle, walking toward the building, and firing several shots at the entrance, according to court records summarized by WDIO and county prosecutors.

Officers later found fourteen 9mm casings near the clubhouse. Police also documented bullet holes in the front door and damage inside the entryway, evidence that made the case about more than property damage. St. Louis County Attorney Kim Maki said the shooting endangered everyone inside, and the county attorney’s office thanked the Eveleth Police Department and the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office for the investigation.

Judge Michelle M. Anderson presided over the plea and later sentenced Gunderson to 58 months in prison after denying her request for a downward departure from Minnesota sentencing guidelines. The state had said it would seek the maximum sentence allowed under the plea agreement. Sentencing had been set for May 4, 2026, at 9 a.m.

The case lands hard in Eveleth because the clubhouse has already become a flashpoint for public safety concerns. The Eveleth City Council unanimously passed a public safety declaration aimed at moving the Hells Angels out of the city after two incidents in the prior nine months at the same location on Grant Avenue.

One of those earlier cases involved a December 2023 law-enforcement operation at 413 Grant Avenue, where authorities said a woman was sexually assaulted and beaten and a man was kidnapped and taken there against his will. Two Eveleth men were arrested in connection with that case.

Taken together, the shooting conviction and the earlier violence show why city officials have treated the clubhouse as more than a single-crime scene. For residents near downtown Eveleth, the concern has been about repeated police activity, the risk to people inside occupied buildings, and whether a familiar address has become a continuing public-safety problem.