A man has been sentenced in connection with a homicide that occurred in Brooklyn Park earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Sebestyen James Lamar Warren, 24, was previously convicted on one count of second-degree murder and, on Monday, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He has credit for 273 days already served.<\/p>\n
RELATED: 23-year-old charged in Brooklyn Park homicide<\/a><\/p>\n As previously reported, Brooklyn Park police responded to a shooting inside an apartment on the 6900 block of 76th Avenue North overnight on Jan. 13. According to a criminal complaint, officers found people coming out of the building into the parking lot, and 20-30 people were in the building\u2019s common area.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Man dead after shooting at Brooklyn Park apartment complex<\/a><\/p>\n Police found a man who had been shot in the chest in a stairwell. He was pronounced deceased at the hospital and later identified as 21-year-old Gavin Micheal Kramer.<\/p>\n Witnesses told police that the shooting happened in an apartment on the third floor that Kramer was leasing. Investigators found a discharged cartridge casing on the floor and a trail of blood leading to where Kramer was found.<\/p>\n According to court documents, there had been a party in the apartment before the shooting, and at least two of the men in attendance had brought guns, including Kramer.<\/p>\n A witness said that Warren and Kramer went into the bathroom together and when Kramer came out, he heard a gunshot and saw Kramer fall to the ground. Warren ran from the apartment and told people to \u201ccall 911 to save [the victim],\u201d witnesses told police.<\/p>\n Another witness told investigators that Warren and some of the men he attended the party with were known to steal people\u2019s guns. He added that the men\u2019s motive was to steal Kramer\u2019s gun and that Warren shot Kramer when he tried to stop him.<\/p>\n Warren, another man, and a teenager were arrested in St. Paul. According to court documents, Warren had a backpack with three handguns, one of which was believed to belong to Kramer. Investigators also found items associated with Kramer\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n RELATED: Teen boy, 2 men arrested in connection with early morning homicide<\/a><\/p>\n After his arrest, Warren said he didn\u2019t remember having the backpack when he was arrested and didn\u2019t remember who he was with around the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n Warren claimed he was in the hallway when he heard a gunshot, adding that despite not being near the shooting, he told people to call 911.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Brooklyn Park<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Homicide<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Sentencing<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been sentenced in connection with a homicide that occurred in Brooklyn Park earlier this year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5796,1027,9,24,63,3209,1096],"class_list":["post-373576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sentencing","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}