A 19-year-old Minnesota man will spend more than a decade behind bars for murdering a 24-year-old man as he walked down the street with his cousins.
Jehovah Nelson pleaded guilty in October to second-degree murder with intent in the death of Dejuan Hemphill in St. Paul. On Tuesday, a judge sentenced Nelson to 12 1/2 years in prison.
According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, St. Paul police patrolling the area of Rice Street and University Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. Nov. 5, 2024, heard three or four shots. They then saw a man running away. Officers tracked down the man they saw who told them he was walking in the area with his two cousins when someone opened fire on them…