One of four men charged in the drug-related shooting death of a St. Paul man last year was sentenced Thursday in Ramsey County District Court to a little more than 13 years in prison.
Man sentenced to 13 years in drug-related shooting death
December 11, 2009 at 3:54AM
Jerome K. West, 34, had pleaded guilty in September to third-degree murder in the death of Leon D. May.
According to court documents, officers responding to a call of shots fired Dec. 11, 2008, found May barely breathing and lying in a pool of blood on the back porch of an East Side home.
May, shot about 10 times, died a short time later at Regions Hospital.
The complaint against West said that he and three other men had gone to the home to pick up marijuana from May when May was shot and killed.
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