A Minnesota Kwik Trip employee was stabbed to death while at work early Tuesday morning by a known customer, authorities say. The Mankato Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that 34-year-old Dennis Vosika of Mankato was found unresponsive with multiple stab wounds when authorities arrived after 3 a.

Dennis Vosika, 34, of Mankato, was found lying unresponsive on the floor when police officers, responding to a disturbance at the store, arrived at the Kwik Trip shortly after 3 a.m. Vosika died of multiple stab wounds at the Mankato hospital, authorities said.

A 28-year-old Mankato man is accused of stabbing a worker 43 times at a Mankato Kwik Trip on Tuesday, according to charges filed in Blue Earth County Court.