A man has been sentenced after being charged with fatally shooting a 17-year-old girl in Brooklyn Park last summer.
Melchizedek Kpaan, 25, was sentenced to just over 10 years in prison (122 months) after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter.
Court documents state that on July 1, 2025, officers responded to a girl who said she had been shot near 70th Avenue North and Lakeland Avenue North in a U-Haul parking lot…