A St. Paul man admitted Friday that he drove the getaway car after a shooting outside a St. Paul bar in April that killed 26-year-old Trevell Glass and injured another man.
Leandrews Devale Miller Jr., 38, agreed to testify against the alleged shooter in exchange for an eight-year prison sentence. Miller pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding an offender, but one of the charges will be dropped after he testifies.
Under questioning from Ramsey County prosecutor John Ristad, Miller said he was at Born's Bar on April 13 with Xavier Buchanan, Byron Brantley and a fourth man when a fight broke out. When the men were kicked out of the bar at 899 Rice St., Miller said, he went to get his car with Buchanan and the other man.
While in his car, Miller said, he ducked when he heard about eight gunshots. Ristad asked whether any of the gunshots came from Miller's car. Miller replied that, when he asked Buchanan if he had shot from the car, Buchanan "started crying and he brandished the gun ... at that point, I knew he was involved with shooting out my car."
Brantley then got into the car and "he stated like, 'two of 'em,'" Miller testified. "I took it to mean that two people had just got shot and Brantley was involved."
Brantley is accused of firing the shots that killed Glass and injured the other man.
Buchanan, 36, pleaded guilty in July to attempted first-degree murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm and attempted first-degree assault. In exchange for his testimony, the attempted murder charge will be dismissed.
Brantley, 45, is scheduled to go on trial in October on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
