St. Cloud Shooting Suspect Sentenced to Prison

ST. CLOUD (WJON News) -- A Stearns County judge has sentenced 29-year-old Daquan Ledbetter to 63 years in prison for his role in a south St. Cloud shooting last summer. He gets credit for having already served nearly a year in jail.

Ledbetter was found guilty on four counts of aiding and abetting 2nd-degree assault, four counts of attempted aiding and abetting 1st-degree murder, and one count of being a felon in possession of a gun.

The court also found Ledbetter guilty of the aggravating factor of committing the crimes as part of a group of three or more defendants who all actively participated in the crimes.

According to the criminal complaint, Ledbetter and two other suspects, 27-year-old Bryant Garth II and 21-year-old Jamarcus Morris, pulled up to a group of people near the intersection of 11th Avenue South and 6th Street South and fired multiple gunshots into the crowd.

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In all, 33 shots were fired in the incident, and three men, between 19-21-years-old, and a 15-year-old boy were hit.

The charges against Garth and Morris are currently going through the court system.

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