Shire Basal Pleads Guilty To Killing Liban Abdulahi

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minneapolis teen has pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated robbery.

In a plea deal with Hennepin County prosecutors, 17-year-old Shire Basal entered the plea Tuesday to second-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Liban Abdulahi of Burnsville last September. Basal said he and Abdulahi had an altercation several months earlier.

Basal also pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated robbery for holding up a woman on a Minneapolis street with a BB gun. A second robbery count will be dismissed.

Sentencing is June 10. The agreement calls for Basal to receive a 25-year prison sentence.

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