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Authorities charge second man in Mpls. bus stop slaying

The suspect, 18, is being held on $2 million bond.

March 21, 2015 at 4:12AM

A second suspect has been charged in the slaying last fall of a 37-year-old man in northeast Minneapolis. The victim was apparently shot during a robbery as he walked home from a bus stop, authorities said.

Hennepin County authorities Thursday charged Montrell Maurice Webster, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, with first-degree murder in the Sept. 21 killing of Eulalio Gonzalez-Sanchez, of Minneapolis, outside a northeast neighborhood apartment building.

In December, Jeremiah Elijah Blackwell, 20, was charged with second-degree murder after police say they matched shell casings recovered from the scene to a .40-caliber Ruger pistol they found in his possession during a later traffic stop.

Webster, 18, of Brooklyn Park, told detectives this week that he shot Gonzalez-Sanchez several times after ordering him to get on the ground and taking his wallet, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.

Webster is being held on $2 million bond. He made his initial court appearance Friday afternoon and was assigned a public defender, who declined to comment.

Libor Jany • 612-673-4064 Twitter:@StribJany

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.

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