Boom Island mass shooter takes 40-year plea deal
Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, agreed to a 40-year prison plea for two second-degree murder counts tied to the June 2025 drive-by mass shooting at Boom Island Park that killed one person and wounded five.[1]
He signed a Hennepin County plea, accepting a 480-month term with the two murder sentences to run concurrently.[1] The June 2025 drive-by at Boom Island Park killed 23-year-old Stageina Katraya Shapryia Whiting and injured five others, investigators said.[1] Charging documents said investigators recovered roughly 130 shell casings and linked nine guns to the attack.[1]
Hill-Turnipseed had been released from federal prison in March 2025 after a conviction for possessing a firearm with a switch.[1] He had been linked in earlier complaints to other Twin Cities shootings and to a 2021 Eden Prairie police chase, court records showed.[1]
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- Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, signed a Hennepin County plea deal for two second-degree murder drive-by shooting cases tied to the Boom Island mass shooting.
- He agreed to a 480‑month (40-year) prison sentence, with the two murder sentences to run concurrently.
- The June 2025 shooting at Boom Island Park killed 23-year-old Stageina Katraya Shapryia Whiting and injured five others, with about 130 shell casings and nine guns involved according to prior charging documents.
- Hill-Turnipseed had been released from federal prison in March 2025 after a firearm-with-a-switch conviction and had been linked in prior complaints to other Twin Cities shootings and a 2021 Eden Prairie chase.
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