Man Gets 10 Years For Fatal Shooting Near Mpls. Church
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minneapolis man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting a 19-year-old last October outside a northside church.
Hennepin County officials say Jontrel Marquise Bolden was sentenced in March to 120 months in prison for first-degree manslaughter, as well as a 60-month concurrent sentence for being a prohibited person in possession of a gun.
Bolden shot Elija Larkin on Oct. 14, 2015, outside the New Bethel Baptist Church on Minneapolis' north side. The two had gotten into an argument after they stepped off two different city buses.
Surveillance footage shows Bolden, who was 20 at the time of the crime, firing around six shots at Larkin. The younger man then retreated into the church, where he collapsed.
After the shooting, Bolden fled to Chicago. He was arrested a month later.