An 18-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week in Ramsey County district court after pleading guilty to killing a man police believe was making "ghost guns" in North St. Paul.
Abo Eshun Essilfie of St. Paul was 17 when he pleaded guilty in July to one count of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Anthony Robert Rojas-Dabbs, 24.
Prosecutors had requested Essilfie be given a sentence of a little more than 27 years; the defense had asked for close to 14 years.
Rojas-Dabbs was killed June 19 at his apartment in North St. Paul.
According to the criminal complaint, police responded shortly after 6 p.m. to the 2100 block of McKnight Road and found Rojas-Dabbs with a gunshot wound to the head.
They also found two open and empty gun safes, a 3-D printer, boxes of ammunition and rifle magazines. It appeared Rojas-Dabbs was using the printer to make gun parts, the complaint says.
Co-defendant Octavion Rayshawn Jones, 19, told police that Essilfie wanted to trade his 9-millimeter or .40-caliber handgun to Rojas-Dabbs for ghost guns, a term commonly used for untraceable weapons that have no serial numbers.
He said people at the apartment were passing around guns when he went into the bathroom and heard a loud bang.
