A 27-year-old man has received a 40-year term for the fatal shooting of one man and the wounding of two others at a late-night party in St. Cloud 1½ years ago.
Deionte Jaewon Parker was sentenced Tuesday in Stearns County District Court after a jury convicted him last month of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and illegal gun possession in connection with the shooting on Oct. 22, 2023, near St. Cloud State University that killed Antonio C. Harris Jr., 34, of Buffalo, Minn. Parker, of St. Cloud, was acquitted of a second-degree assault count.
Co-defendant Antoine Elijah Williams, 29, of St. Cloud is charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and illegal gun possession. He remains jailed in lieu of $1.5 million bail with a May 22 hearing scheduled.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tested the DNA on a gun spotted on a roof by a St. Cloud resident, and the “results revealed the major male DNA profile located on the trigger of the firearm matched [Williams],” read the charges filed against him.
At the same time, one of the men who survived being wounded told police that he saw Parker shoot Harris, the charges continued.
Court records show Parker also has been convicted six times for various illicit drug offenses, three times for weapons-related crimes and once for second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
Officers responding to the report of a shooting arrived at the home in the 700 block of 6th Avenue S., where an “after-bar party” was underway and saw Harris had been shot in the head and lower torso. He died at the scene. Another man was shot in the leg and a third in the foot.
