MINNEAPOLIS — The families of two separate victims murdered by 24-year-old Marquez Hill-Turnipseed three years apart are speaking out about a Hennepin County Attorney’s Office plea deal that combined their cases into concurrent sentences totaling 40 years in prison.
Judge Michael Burns, who once rejected a plea deal negotiated by Mary Moriarty’s office, reluctantly accepted the negotiation and handed down the 40-year sentence. After serving two-thirds behind bars, Hill-Turnipseed will be released in less than 27 years when he is 50.
The unusual hearing combined the deadly 2025 shooting on Boom Island that ended with innocent bystander Stageina Whiting killed with the 2022 drive-by shooting of Eloe Lomax. Hill-Turnipseed was the triggerman in both murders, which he confessed to in full from a Chicago jail when he was arrested last year…