One of the two men convicted in a 2021 St. Paul mass shooting has been sentenced to over 28 years behind bars.
31-year old Devondre Phillips of Las Vegas was found guilty back in February of eight counts of attempted murder after he and another man, Terry Brown, started shooting at each other inside the Truck Park Bar on Seventh Street.
27-year old Marquisha Wiley was killed and 14 others were injured. Brown was convicted early this month of killing Wiley, along with four attempted murder charges. He has yet to be sentenced.
A third man was also convicted and sentenced to three years on federal charges of straw purchasing of the guns used.
Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher told WCCO in February that the night before the shooting, the crowd outside the Seventh Street Truck Park bar was larger than what's usually seen. As a result, he said he felt off about it.
"After years of seeing different crowds, we could tell there was some hostility in the crowd, there was some anti-police hostility, but we could read the hostility between people that were even standing outside," Fletcher said.