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- A man who was twice convicted of shooting and killing a 15-year-old Minneapolis high schooler has been sentenced to more than 28 years in prison.
A man who was twice convicted of shooting and killing a 15-year-old Minneapolis high schooler has been sentenced to more than 28 years in prison.
Cody Fohrenkam, 33, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month in the early 2022 shooting death of Deshaun Hill Jr. The star football and basketball player at North High School was gunned down while walking to a bus stop near school, where students had been released early to protest the killing of Amir Locke by a Minneapolis police officer.
Fohrenkam was initially convicted of killing Hill and sentenced to more than 38 years in prison, but his conviction was overturned by an appeals court in 2024 after Fohrenkam’s attorney argued that his statements to police were unlawfully obtained.
Ahead of a retrial that was scheduled to begin in early February, Fohrenkam accepted a plea deal that ultimately delivered his 340-month prison sentence on Monday, with 1,044 days of credit for time already served. It also prevents him from filing another appeal in the case…