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   MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 24-year-old Minneapolis man who was convicted of   
   kidnapping and raping a woman in 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison   
   without parole.   
      
   Deonte Lawson was found guilty of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual   
   conduct and one count of kidnapping.   
      
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   Deonte Lawson (credit: Hennepin County)   
   According to the criminal complaint, a young woman was retrieving something   
   from the trunk of her car on the night of Oct. 15, 2017, or the morning of   
   Oct. 16 in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis when Lawson, Darius Freeman   
   and Wayne Armstrong    
   forced her into the car at gunpoint and took her credit cards.   
      
   Prosecutors say they took her to a secluded wooded area where they sexually   
   assaulted her. She later told investigators she thought they were going to   
   kill her.   
      
   The three suspects then drove her toward Washington County, but the woman   
   reportedly convinced them to stop for gas in Scandia. There, she escaped and   
   ran from the car to an apartment above the gas station where she awoke the   
   residents by shouting for    
   help. Eventually, the complaint says, the three suspects gave up searching for   
   her and drove away.   
      
   "I am smarter, braver and stronger than Mr. Lawson ever counted on," the young   
   woman wrote in her victim impact statement, which was read by a victim   
   advocate at Tuesday's sentencing. "I am a survivor. And I know I am not his   
   first victim, but I am going    
   to make damn sure I am his last. Mr. Lawson is nothing more than a monster. I   
   looked him in the eyes during my testimony and I saw the cold, evil,   
   lifelessness I remember seeing in Oct. 2017."   
      
   Armstrong, who was 17 at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty and agreed to   
   testify against Lawson. He was not called testify. He will be sentenced Friday   
   as an adult and is expected to get 144 months in prison.   
      
   Freeman, who was 16 at the time, also pleaded guilty and did testify against   
   Lawson. He is also expected to get 144 months when he is sentenced at the end   
   of the month.   
      
   The DNA of Lawson, Armstrong and Freeman connected them to the crime.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/deonte-lawson-minneapolis   
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