Plymouth man pleads guilty to 2020 murder

A Plymouth man has accepted a plea agreement in which he’ll plead guilty to a 2020 murder.

Court records show 33-year-old Eric Michael Fullerton changed his plea to guilty on one count of second-degree murder Thursday as part of the agreement.

He’s charged in connection to the Nov. 19, 2020, death of 26-year-old Lucas James Grahn.

A criminal complaint states Minneapolis police were called to the 2700 block of 18th Avenue South at around 10:30 a.m. on a report of an unconscious person in a home. The man, identified as Grahn, had been shot in his abdomen and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two witnesses initially claimed Grahn had come to the home the night before with a group of other people but they’d left and didn’t find him until the following morning, according to the complaint. One of them later admitted to being present when Fullerton came over and shot Fullerton at around 11 p.m. on Nov. 19, 2020.

The complaint notes that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office determined “there was a real possibility that if 911 was called and EMS arrived within a reasonable amount of time, (Grahn) could have been saved.”

Fullerton’s sentencing is set for April 22.