A St. Paul man who wore a sweatshirt that read “In Glock We Trust” while firing a fully automatic handgun at a car in Maplewood — wounding a passenger and causing two juveniles nearby to cower in fear — was sentenced Friday to just over six years in prison.
Muhnee Jaleel Bailey (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)
Muhnee Jaleel Bailey, 24, pleaded guilty in Ramsey County District Court to drive-by shooting in connection with the incident at an apartment building parking lot at Larpenteur Avenue and McMenemy Street about just before 6 p.m. on April 16.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to dismiss five other charges: second-degree attempted murder and four counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a person prohibited due to a conviction for a crime of violence.
The six-year, three-month sentence was part of the plea agreement. He received credit for 175 days already served in custody.
According to the criminal complaint, surveillance video showed Bailey get out of a Chevrolet Malibu and fire three volleys, which were in rapid succession, at a gold sedan. Police found 18 spent casings in the parking lot.
Video also showed a 10-year-old girl who had just got off a school bus and another juvenile “cowering in fear as they tried to get into the apartment building,” the complaint read.
A 22-year-old passenger of the gold sedan was soon dropped off at Regions Hospital in St. Paul and treated for gunshot wounds to his shoulder and leg. He did not want to talk to police, the complaint said.
After law enforcement identified the license plate on the Chevrolet, police pulled over the car on April 22 in Minneapolis. Bailey was driving.
Officers discovered Bailey was on release from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to a halfway house in Minneapolis. He had pleaded guilty in March 2023 to a federal charge of possession of a firearm as felon.
Police carried out a search warrant at his house and found a Glock with an extended magazine, another Glock in a backpack, a pistol without a serial number and the sweatshirt.
Bailey has a lengthy criminal history that goes back to when he was a teenager, state court records show. Recent convictions in separate cases include drive-by shooting, fleeing police in a vehicle and possession of a machine gun after being caught with a Glock pistol that had an auto sear, or “switch,” making it fully automatic.
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