Victims and family members railed against a plea agreement for a Minneapolis man who admitted killing two people and attempting to kill two others within the span of a month last year, amid other criminal charges.
Calon Hatchett, 21, agreed to a plea agreement on Tuesday that stipulates he will be sentenced to 47 years in prison, and could be released in 31 years. He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder just as his criminal trial was set to get underway with jury selection.
Hatchett was 20 years old when he shot and killed 30-year-old Tonia Powell on July 23, 2023, in a south Minneapolis apartment building after the two had stepped into the hallway to smoke weed. Hatchett left Powell to die then walked into the apartment of Powell’s girlfriend, Heaven Lacy, and shot her three times.
Lacy, a mother to two boys, survived but was left with devastating injuries after bullets struck her chest, pierced her lung and and exited through her back. She was able to identify Hatchett as the shooter when officers arrived on the scene.
“I just know he’s a psychopath,” Lacy said after attending the plea hearing, which she did not know was coming until she arrived at the courthouse anticipating the start of trial. “I feel like he should have gotten more time than he got.”

When police arrested Hatchett in downtown Minneapolis, a Glock 10-millimeter handgun was inside his backpack. It matched the casings found at the shooting that killed Powell.
Police then discovered the Glock matched the casings in another shooting.
While Hatchett was in custody he was charged with the murder of Ali Reed in south Minneapolis near Chicago Ave. and 21st St. on June 25, 2023. According to court documents, Reed and his girlfriend were walking when they passed Hatchett with a group of men. Hatchett shot and killed Reed and fired at the woman while she fled.