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   From: james@council.nyc.gov   
      
   A 17-year-old has agreed to spend several years in prison for using a   
   dating app to lure a man into a carjacking trap in Minneapolis that left   
   the victim with numerous critical gunshot wounds.   
      
   Randal Barnard Williams, 17, of Woodbury pleaded guilty Wednesday to   
   first-degree assault in connection with his role in the attack on a   
   24-year-old man from Brooklyn Center on Dec. 5.   
      
   The plea deal in adult court calls for Williams to receive a 9½-year   
   sentence. With credit for time in custody since his arrest, he is   
   expected to spend just shy of six years in prison and the balance on   
   supervised release.   
      
   Williams remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail ahead of sentencing   
   on Oct. 23.   
      
   Williams’ girlfriend, who was 15 years old at the time of the crime, was   
   also charged. However, details about her juvenile court case are   
   withheld from the public because she is under 16.   
      
   The couple was also charged with another violent crime in Minneapolis in   
   October 2024, when they and others allegedly barged into an occupied   
   Loring Park apartment, with guns drawn and wearing masks, in pursuit of   
   a safe they failed to find.   
      
   As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to have that case against   
   Williams dismissed along with a fifth-degree assault charge.   
      
   According to the attempted murder charges, which did not identify the   
   victim:   
      
   Police responded to a report of a shooting about 11:26 p.m. in the 3900   
   block of 11th Avenue S. and saw the victim down in the alley. He was   
   shot in the chest, abdomen, lower back and pelvis.   
      
   The man “survived, albeit with permanent injuries and lifelong   
   impairment, including the removal of part of his stomach.”   
      
   The man said he met “Sasha” on a dating app on Nov. 29, and they drove   
   around with two of her female friends. They also drove to Woodbury to   
   pick up Williams. The man said he saw that Williams had a handgun.   
      
   On Dec. 5, the man again drove Williams, Sasha and some of their friends   
   around. Late that night, Sasha asked the man to drive her to the 3900   
   block of 11th Avenue S. so she could visit her grandmother.   
      
   After they arrived, Sasha asked the man to leave his cellphone in the   
   car and follow her down an alley. Williams joined them and shot the man,   
   even while the victim was running away.   
      
   Williams took his car keys and drove off with Sasha.   
      
   Police in Fridley found the man’s car on Dec. 13 about a block from an   
   address associated with Sasha.   
      
   On Jan. 23, the teen and his girlfriend were arrested together in Red   
   Wing.   
      
   https://www.startribune.com/teen-admits-reeling-in-carjack-victim-shootin   
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