Boom Island mass shooting: 40 year prison sentence after shots kill mother, wound 5 others

The Brief

  • A plea deal has been signed for the Boom Island mass shooting that left a woman dead and five other people injured.
  • Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, was arrested in Chicago about a month after the shooting.
  • Court documents show he signed a plea deal that will sentence him to 40 years in prison.

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) A man who was arrested in Chicago after police say he fired the shots that killed a young mother signed a plea deal in Hennepin County Court.

Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, has agreed to serve 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to the mass shooting on Boom Island in June 2025.

Boom Island mass shooting sentencing

By the numbers:

Court documents show Hill-Turnipseed guilty to two separate second-degree murder drive-by shooting cases and has agreed to a 480-month sentence, or 40 years, in both cases.

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