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St. Cloud Man Sentenced to 40 Years for Fatal Shooting

(Learfield News/St. Cloud, MN) — A St. Cloud man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for a 2023 shooting that killed one person and injured two others.

Twenty-seven-year-old Deionte Jaewon Parker was found guilty of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and possessing a gun illegally last month.

Police in St. Cloud found 34-year-old Antonio Harris Junior of Buffalo lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds and he died at the scene.

Two other men were also shot and injured.

Investigators learned Parker arrived at a party armed before shooting the victims.

Parker and Harris had gotten into an argument the week before.