A 15-year-old Fridley boy was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a 28-year-old man near a St. Paul apartment in October.
Nehemiah D. Robinson Bowes waived certification to adult court in July and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Oct. 12 killing of Riccardo Anthony Fleming, who was shot 11 times at Woodbridge Street and Wheelock Parkway on the city’s North End.
Riccardo Fleming (Courtesy of the family)
Fleming grew up in Robbinsdale and had been living in Nebraska. He was visiting his father’s side of the family in St. Paul when he was killed.
Police responded to multiple reports of shots fired about 9:50 p.m. and found Fleming lying in the street. He was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital.
Bowes told police in a Nov. 11 interview that he went to the apartment building to hang out with three others the day of the killing. He said he drank vodka and then snorted white powder, which caused him to feel mad and confused, the charges say.
Bowes said that he and Fleming walked to where they were going to commit a robbery, but no one was there. They then saw the two men they had been hanging out with at the apartment. After one of them gave him a look, Bowes said, he pulled out a 9 mm gun he had stolen from his father’s safe and shot Fleming.
The next day, Bowes took an Uber to his father’s house and hid the gun under some wooden stairs near a dog park. Police found the gun on Nov. 11 where he said he stashed it.
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