A 19-year-old Minnesota man will spend more than a decade behind bars for murdering a 24-year-old man as he walked down the street with his cousins.

Jehovah Nelson pleaded guilty in October to second-degree murder with intent in the death of Dejuan Hemphill in St. Paul. On Tuesday, a judge sentenced Nelson to 12 1/2 years in prison.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit , St. Paul police patrolling the area of Rice Street and University Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. Nov. 5, 2024, heard three or four shots. They then saw a man running away. Officers tracked down the man they saw who told them he was walking in the area with his two cousins when someone opened fire on them.

Cops found Hemphill suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Paramedics rushed Hemphill to th

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