A New Brighton man has received a sentence topping 13 years for a late-night road rage murder on a Minneapolis parkway.
Dhaha Hayi Hassan, 25, was sentenced Thursday in Hennepin County District Court after he was found guilty during a trial in October of second-degree murder and a felony firearm charge for possessing a gun without a serial number in connection with the shooting of Randy John Burris Sr., 34, in November 2023.
With credit for time in jail since his arrest, Hassan is expected to serve about 8⅓ years in prison and the balance of his 13½-year term on supervised release.
According to the criminal complaint:
Shortly before midnight on Nov. 17, 2023, officers found Burris down on West River Parkway near the Franklin Avenue Bridge with gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen.
Burris, of Minneapolis, “pointed in the direction of an individual later identified as Hassan” when asked who shot him. Hassan was arrested, and an officer found in his waistband a Polymer 80 handgun, which did not have serial numbers.
Witnesses told officers that Hassan’s car was driving the wrong way and blocking traffic on West River Parkway, which is narrow and allows only one vehicle to pass at a time.
Burris, who had on a neck brace due to a recent vertebrae injury, left his vehicle and told Hassan that he needed to reverse. When Hassan refused, the men began to argue.
