DULUTH — A St. Louis County jury has found a Duluth man guilty of all charges in the August 2023 drive-by shooting death of Paris Kaden Allen, a 19-year-old who was here visiting friends and family in his hometown.
Second Duluth man found guilty for role in 2023 drive-by shooting death
Sanussi Tamsir Bangoura, 22, was one of two men who fired gunshots that killed Paris Allen and injured another man during altercation.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
June 21, 2024 at 3:08PM
Sanussi Tamsir Bangoura, 22, was convicted Thursday of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, in addition to a drive-by shooting charge.
Brandon Capone Williams-Gillard was found guilty of the same charges in December and is serving a 40-year prison sentence in St. Cloud.
Bangoura’s sentencing date was not set.
On the day of the shootings in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, Bangoura and Williams-Gillard had verbally sparred with Allen and his friends — part of a year-long feud between the two groups. As Bangoura and Williams-Gillard left the scene, they opened fire at the other group. Allen dropped to the sidewalk, shot in the head; his friend Caleb Reinolt-Nemec was struck near his hip. He still suffers from the wound.
Allen was visiting Duluth from California, in part, to see if he could donate a kidney to his father. According to his obituary, he enjoyed longboarding and spending time with family and friends. He wanted to become an underwater welder.
Carlton County, just southwest of Duluth, hadn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Herbert Hoover in 1928. Trump snapped that nearly centurylong streak earlier this month.
