Man Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison In Connection To Bus Stop Murder

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A Hennepin County judge sentenced a Minneapolis man to more than seven years in prison Thursday for his role in a 2014 northeast Minneapolis bus stop murder.

Jeremiah Elijah Blackwell, 20, pleaded guilty to aiding an offender (accomplice after the fact) in February, and was sentenced to 92 months at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility.

The incident in question dates back to Sept. 21, 2014, when Eulalio Gonzalez-Sanchez, 36, was walking home after just getting off a bus just before 6:30 a.m. Montrell Webster, 19, later admitted as part of a plea agreement that he shot Gonzalez-Sanchez less than 10 minutes later at the intersection of 7th Street and 22nd Avenue Northeast.

Prosecutors say cell phone records later showed Blackwell was in the vicinity of the shooting at around the same time that morning. Later, during a traffic stop, officers confiscated a gun from Blackwell's car that matched bullets and shell casings found near Gonzalez-Sanchez's body.

Webster was sentenced to life in prison last month.