A Minneapolis teenager has been sentenced to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during the holiday shopping rush in 2022. Nineteen-year-old Taeshawn Adams-Wright pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March in the killing of 19-year-old Johntae Hudson, of Minneapolis.
FILE - A visitor leaves the Mall of America, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Bloomington, Minn. A Minneapolis teenager was sentenced Thursday, May 30, 2024, to more than 30 years for a fatal shooting that shut down the Mall of America during the holiday shopping rush in 2022. Taeshawn Adams-Wright, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March in the killing of 19-year-old Johntae Hudson, of Minneapolis . He is the first of four defendants to be sentenced.
“You and several others decided to hunt someone down and execute them,” Scoggin said. “We’ve all seen that tape, and there can be no other definition of what happened that day. Your recitation of acting in self-defense that day? You weren’t. You participated with a group of people to kill someone and it’s as simple as that.”
The judge handed down a sentence of 30 years and seven months. Defendants in Minnesota typically serve two-thirds of their sentences in prison and the rest on supervised release.“I feel like I can breathe again,” she said. “We are so relieved that it went our way. We think that 30 years is not enough, but it’s something.”
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