2 men receive probation sentences for their connection to 2021 Inver Grove Heights murder

Two men who were found guilty of being connected to a fatal 2021 Inver Grove Heights shooting have learned their fate.

Kyle Reagan, 33, and Jason Beck, 42, were charged following the death of 38-year-old Bryant Lutgens of Burnsville.

Reagan, of Edina, was charged with aiding an offender- accomplice after the fact. Wednesday, he was sentenced to 57 months in prison, but a judge stayed the sentence for five years. He received credit for 69 days served in the Dakota County Jail. Instead, he will serve five years of supervised probation in Dakota County.

Meanwhile, Beck, of Eden Prairie, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for one count of first-degree aggravated robbery, but had that sentence stayed by a judge. He also received credit for 129 days served in the Dakota County Jail, and will now serve five years of supervised probation.

Beck was initially charged with aiding and abetting murder in the second degree without intent while committing a felony, in addition to aggravated robbery. Court documents show he pleaded guilty to the aggravated robbery charge in June 2021.

Lutgens was found dead in a snowbank on the morning of Feb. 1, 2021 by Inver Grove Heights police. Officers determined he’d been with a friend in Bloomington the night before but, after leaving to get money, never came back and wasn’t responding.

As previously reported by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS last week, Gabriel Alfonso Sanchez Cruz—who was found guilty of first-degree murder while committing aggravated robbery and second-degree intentional murder in Lutgens’ death—was sentenced to life in prison.

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Meanwhile, documents state a fourth person—Ryan Whitman, 39, of Richfield—entered a guilty plea to a charge of aiding an offender- accomplice and accessory after the fact) in April 2021. Court documents say while a settlement is pending, a sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 3.