A 21-year-old already serving federal time has been given nearly eight years in state prison for his role in a robbery that turned deadly during a gun heist in North St. Paul in 2023.

Octavion Rayshawn Jones, of St. Paul, had pleaded guilty in Ramsey County District Court to aiding and abetting first-degree robbery in connection with the shooting of 24-year-old Anthony Robert Rojas on June 19, 2023.

The shooter, Abo Eshun Essilfie, who turned 18 three months after the killing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2023 after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional murder.

Jones’ state sentence, which was handed down Friday, will run concurrent with a 2½-year term he received in June in U.S. District Court of Minnesota for possessing in 2023 a .45-caliber handgun that was

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