DULUTH – A Michigan man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in front of a downtown Duluth bar has been sentenced to more than 18 years in prison.
Darrius Lamar Plummer, 35, struck Chantel Raechelle Moose, 25, at bar close on April 12, 2024. She fell to the sidewalk and could not be revived. Plummer was chased, tackled and shot at by two men at the scene before he fled to Detroit, where he was arrested by U.S. Marshals months later.
Plummer, of Canton, Mich., was found guilty by a jury in May and sentenced on Tuesday at the St. Louis County Courthouse, according to a news release.
During the jury trial, Moose was described as well-liked, a mother, a firecracker. She loved music, dancing and art.
“She was like the sparkle in everybody’s eyes,” Moose’s aunt, Tammy DeFoe, said in a video statement after the trial.
Witnesses testified that Plummer said disparaging things about Moose that night at the bar. He stood with his back to the wall, a knife at the ready. She confronted him and he reached over a bouncer’s arm and slashed her near her neck. She didn’t seem to know she had been stabbed, according to witness testimony.
“The last thing Chantel Moose ever did is stand up for herself,” prosecutor Victoria Wanta said at the start of her closing argument.
In the days after her death, a memorial grew on the sidewalk near where she had died.
