A Champlin woman was charged with killing her daughter the day a judge granted temporary custody to the girl’s father, a Lakeville man, according to court documents.

Maige Elizabeth Yang, 23, was charged Tuesday with the second-degree murder of De’Ali Blia Delgado, 18 months.

De’Ali Blia Delgado. (Courtesy of GoFundMe)

After Hennepin County District Judge Theresa Couri granted the child’s father temporary custody on Jan. 9, authorities allege that Yang went home and killed her daughter and then tried to kill herself, according to the criminal complaint.

The following details were found in court documents about last week’s custody hearing:

During the hearing, Couri said it would be a difficult decision since the girl had spent most of her life with her mother but, due to the mother’s “erratic” behavior, the father, Erick Delgado of Lakeville, would get temporary custody of the child.

Delgado said during the hearing that Yang was demonstrating erratic behavior and he believed that she had untreated mental health issues. It also was revealed that Yang’s mother had found a note in the trash in which Yang had threatened to end her life and her child’s life.

Based on an affidavit about the threat, Champlin police issued an endangered missing person alert for the mother and child on Jan. 3, saying they were last seen on Dec. 28. The alert said that after Yang disappeared, “Family later located communications that lead law enforcement to be extremely concerned for Yang and her daughter’s safety.”

The alert was canceled later that day with authorities saying the pair had been located.

Yang argued in court that she left the state to get away from the stress of the custody case and that she handled her mental health issues by taking medication and seeing a therapist. She said her daughter would not be safe in her father’s care because of his “inability to handle his anger and history of domestic abuse.”

Delgado could not be reached for comment, but in the custody hearing documents, the judge said that based on the facts Yang provided, it was not established that domestic violence had occurred.

In her ruling, Couri said it was a difficult decision to grant temporary custody to the father since the girl had bonded with her mother and been in the mother’s exclusive care most of her life. However, the mother’s recent behavior had been “deeply concerning.”

Couri ruled that the mother’s threats were a “profound threat” to the child’s well-being, warranted “immediate intervention” and were a “severe safety concern.”

It is unclear from court documents when Delgado was going to take custody of the girl, but Yang took her home to Champlin after the hearing.

Later that day, police were called to Yang’s home in the 11900 block of Castle Rock Court on reports of a child in distress. When they arrived, they found the toddler on the living room floor. She was not breathing. Despite lifesaving efforts, she was declared dead at the hospital.

Police found Yang partially unconscious in an upstairs bedroom. Authorities said that she had attempted suicide. She is currently hospitalized under police supervision.

Her parents told police that when Yang returned home from the custody hearing, she took her daughter to an upstairs bedroom. When Yang’s father went to check on them, the door was locked. He forced the door open and found the girl on the floor with her lips turning blue. He grabbed her, ran downstairs and called 911.

Yang later allegedly told investigators she poured a “significant” amount of children’s sleeping medication into the child’s bottle in order to “make the pain go away.” She also allegedly confessed that she intended for it to be a lethal dose so her daughter would “pass peacefully” in her sleep.

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A GoFundMe for funeral expenses (gofund.me/0059faf1c) was started by Delgado. As of Wednesday afternoon, it had raised nearly $10,000.

“It’s with my heart shattered that I write this post,” Delgado wrote on the GoFundMe page. “My baby girl De’Ali Blia Delgado was not just taken away from me, She was murdered. I did everything right. Today I was (supposed) to wake up right next to my daughter. I had finally won custody of my beautiful baby on Friday, January 9th at 11:30Am and by 4Pm her life was gone. I fought my hardest for you, and the justice system failed you. I ask for your help at this very unexpected time to help me and my family bury my beautiful princess.”

The criminal complaint says Yang will be booked into the Hennepin County jail after she is discharged from the hospital.

Verizon customers experienced a mobile service outage across the nation on Wednesday.

More than 180,000 unconfirmed reports were made to Downdetector, peaking in the early afternoon. The hotspot map showed most of the reports coming from New York City, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

The network status section of the Verizon website appeared to have crashed, as well.

The outage affected voice, text, and data service, but users reported retaining WiFi connections to use apps. Hundreds of Verizon Fios reports were made as well, according to DownDetector.

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Many users reported seeing “SOS” in the area of their cellphone screen typically reserved for service bars and 5G icons. Disconnecting and reconnecting via “airplane mode” or restarting devices did not appear to solve the problem.

911 calls should still go through via other networks or satellites.

Customers with an iPhone 14 or newer device can try the Messages via Satellite feature until the outage ends.

“We are aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers,” the company wrote on social media. “Our engineers are engaged and are working to identify and solve the issue quickly. We understand how important reliable connectivity is and apologize for the inconvenience.”

“Verizon engineering teams are continuing to address today’s service interruptions,” the company said in an update later Wednesday afternoon. “Our teams remain fully deployed and are focused on the issue. We understand the impact this has on your day and remain committed to resolving this as quickly as possible.”

An estimated time for service to be fully restored was not provided.

T-Mobile, AT&T and US Cellular customers also reported outages, but in much smaller numbers.

Ryan Ecklund dropped his son off at school in Stillwater, then drove to Woodbury, where he lives, to get groceries. When he arrived in the Cub Foods parking lot in Tamarack Village, he said, he saw what were “clearly ICE vehicles.”

Ryan Ecklund (Courtesy of Ryan Ecklund)

“I didn’t start my day by looking for ICE agents to follow or record or anything like that,” Ecklund said.

Ecklund says he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday after following that vehicle. He said the agents forcefully entered his vehicle, slammed him to the ground and took him to the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling, where he was detained for nine hours in a holding cell.

“I wasn’t causing a scene,” Ecklund said. “I didn’t flash my lights or honk my horn or yell anything out my window. I was simply following that vehicle and recording them.”

ICE has been contacted by the Pioneer Press on this matter. A response has not been received. Ecklund referred to the officers as ICE agents but he said they never identified themselves so he can’t be sure what agency they were with.

‘I’m a U.S. citizen’

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Ecklund said when he arrived at the Cub Foods parking lot, he saw a “police-type vehicle with dark-tinted windows, no license plate on the front, an out-of-state plate on the back and a man in tactical gear and a face covering driving the car.”

He said he decided instead of getting groceries to follow the car and start recording. Ecklund said he followed the driver to a different parking lot in the shopping center, then the driver stepped out and took a photo of him.

“I didn’t know it at the time, but it’s very obvious now that they ran my plate or did some sort of facial identification, because they then proceeded to leave that shopping center and drive into the neighborhood that I live in,” Ecklund said.

Ecklund said the driver returned to the shopping center, and when Ecklund followed, the driver stepped out of the vehicle and gave him a verbal warning.

A still image from video taken by Ryan Ecklund on his phone Jan. 12, 2026. (Courtesy of Ryan Ecklund)

“I said, ‘I don’t need a warning,’” Ecklund said. “’I’m a U.S. citizen who’s allowed to record you. I’m not impeding your movement or your investigation. Have a good day.’”

After close to three minutes, Ecklund said he followed the driver east of the shopping center, and an additional black truck turned off of Radio Drive onto Parkside Drive. The two vehicles parked in front of and behind Ecklund, he said. Five ICE agents walked up to his vehicle and opened the car door, Ecklund said. One climbed in the back seat and put his arm around Ecklund’s neck and headrest so he couldn’t move, he said.

Ecklund said he was then put in handcuffs and taken to the Whipple Federal Building, where he saw protesters demonstrating outside the building. He said he was put in a holding cell from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

“At no point in time was I told why I was being detained,” Ecklund said. “What was told to me by the DHS officers was that I can be detained without being charged for anything for up to 48 hours.”

10-hour panic attack

Ecklund said he requested a phone call, as he was not offered one when interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security officer. He said he called his wife, Tamara Ecklund.

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“I had a 10-hour-long panic attack,” Tamara Ecklund said. “To say that I was terrified is an understatement.”

While her husband was held at the Whipple Federal Building, Ecklund was on the phone with an attorney and posted videos to Instagram, explaining the situation.

“The biggest piece of advice is, if you have a loved one who’s detained, please, please, please seek legal help, because I really think that was the only reason the needle moved for us at all,” she said.

Tamara Ecklund said the killing of Renee Good has had her thinking about how unlawful and unjust it all felt. She said they talked to their 12- and 10-year-old sons about it “and tried to frame it for them in a way that they could comprehend, which is impossible because I can’t comprehend it.”

“When my older son said, ‘Mom, do you think that ICE will come to Woodbury?’ I said, ‘No, honey, I don’t think they will.’ I was wrong,” she said.

A responsibility

Ecklund said that though he has political opinions and personal values, he does not consider himself a political activist.

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“I simply considered it my right and my responsibility to record them (ICE agents) in the event that they did something illegal to somebody else,” Ecklund said. “If my recording them and my presence stopped them from doing something illegal to somebody, then that was my responsibility as a citizen.”

He said a lot of people in his community are terrified of the uncertainty that ICE brings up, especially for immigrants “who are here legally looking for a better life, who are here to work and work hard and continue to build our communities, because they’re built by immigrants.”

“The biggest emotion that I felt was disbelief,” Ecklund said. “I think it’s important that everybody understands that if you think ICE isn’t in your community, you’re mistaken.”

Adam Thielen was supposed to sail off into the sunset in Minnesota after getting his highly anticipated homecoming last summer when the Vikings acquired him in a trade with the Carolina Panthers.

That never happened.

After struggling to carve out a niche for himself with the Vikings this season, Thielen requested his release last month with hopes of playing a bigger role somewhere else. He was claimed off waivers by the Pittsburgh Steelers less than 24 hours later.

“This is tremendously difficult for me to write and certainly not how any of us imagined this to go,” Thielen wrote on social media at the time. “This organization means the world to us from the top down and this locker room is filled with true professionals.”

Now the 35-year-old receiver is ready to hang up the cleats for good.

After taking some time to reflect after the Steelers lost to the Houston Texans in the first round of the playoffs, Thielen took to social media on Wednesday afternoon to announce his retirement from the NFL. His post on Instagram included various pictures of him with his wife Caitlin, his sons Asher and Hudson, and his daughter Cora.

“What a ride it has been!” wrote Thielen, who finished his career with 704 receptions for 8,497 yards, and 64 touchdowns, playing for the Vikings, the Panthers, and the Steelers. “Have been blessed with so many great relationships and mentors over the years that I am forever grateful for!”

The underdog story has been told countless times since the Detroit Lakes native burst onto the scene more than a decade ago.

Originally signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent out of Minnesota State Mankato, Thielen bided his time on the practice squad, took advantage of his opportunities on special teams, and went on to establish himself as a household name.

If Stefon Diggs was Batman for the Vikings throughout the mid 2010s, Thielen was every bit his Robin in that span. Together, Diggs and Thielen formed a dynamic duo at the position, making life miserable on opposing teams that often struggled to take both of them away at the same time.

The steady production from Thielen wasn’t enough to keep him around long term. He was eventually cut by the Vikings in a move designed to free up some salary cap space. He signed with the Panthers shortly after his release and continued to be productive.

The rumors of a reunion with the Vikings popped up last summer and quickly became a reality after some tough negotiations. Though the homecoming came to a rather unceremonious end, Thielen will forever be celebrated for everything he did on and off the field during his time with the Vikings.

It’s only a matter of time before Thielen gets inducted into the Vikings Ring of Honor. It also wouldn’t be a shock to see his No. 19 jersey hanging in the rafters at some point.

The only receivers in franchise history with more receptions than Thielen (542) are Cris Carter, Randy Moss, and Justin Jefferson. The only receivers in franchise history with more yards than Thielen (6,751) are Cris Carter, Randy Moss, Justin Jefferson, and Anthony Carter.

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