Man sentenced for attempted murder of ex-girlfriend
Timothy Amacher sits in the courtroom ahead of his sentencing on Jan. 30, 2023.
A St. Paul man has been sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend last year in Minneapolis.
Timothy Allen Amacher, 41, was found guilty in November of attempted first-degree murder and aiding an offender in the shooting that seriously injured Nicole Lenway. Lenway, a forensic scientist for the Minneapolis Police Department, has a child with Amacher and was on her way to pick the child up when she was shot in the arm and neck.
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Monday, Amacher was sentenced to 18 years (216 months) in prison for the shooting.
Before he was sentenced, Amacher called the trial “three weeks of a smear campaign” and said nobody could confirm he was responsible for the shooting.
Also charged in connection to the shooting is 25-year-old Colleen Purificacion Larson. She’s scheduled to have a pretrial hearing on Friday and also faces attempted first-degree murder.