Man found guilty for fatal shooting at a party in St. Cloud in 2023
Booking photo for Deionte Jaewon Parker (Courtesy of the Stearns County Sheriff's Office)
A man arrested for fatally shooting one person and injuring two others at a St. Cloud party has been found guilty in Stearns County Court.
According to the Stearns County Attorney’s Office, 27-year-old Deionte Jaewon Parker was found guilty of aiding and abetting intentional second-degree murder and being an ineligible person in possession of a firearm.
Parker was acquitted of a separate charge of second-degree assault with a firearm.
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As previously reported, authorities were called to a residence on the 700 block of 6th Avenue South in St. Cloud just before 4 a.m. on Oct. 22, 2023, on a report of a man having been shot.
Court documents said officers found three people who had been shot. Antonio Carl Harris Jr., 34, was later pronounced dead, while two others, a 52-year-old and 26-year-old, were injured.
Parker was later identified as the suspect; court documents alleged Parker had committed the shooting in retaliation to a stabbing that had occurred in July.
His sentencing date has been set for April 15; he faces up to 55 years in prison.