Second defendant admits that he gives a role in the fatal shooting of the father of South St. Paul during Marijuana robbery

An accomplice in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man from South St. Paul during a marijuana robbery admitted his role in the dead.

Tre Manuel Iglesias, 24, by St. Paul, argued on Monday guilty of helping and encouraging second-degree unintended murder while committing a crime for the 2023 murder of Avontae Troy King, who died of a shot on his house.

King had gone outside to go behind Andrew Michael Fisher, who had taken a bag of Marijuana from the King’s table and ran out of the house. Fisher turned around and shot once and hit King in the chest. Fisher and Iglesias left.

In August, Fisher, 21, from Cambridge, minn., Was sentenced to only 13 years in prison after being guilty of the same indictment. The length of the punishment was part of a plea that he reached with officers of justice.

Iglesias’ plea contains no proposed term that he will receive during the conviction, which is planned for September 18. Two other counts will be rejected: helping and connecting second -degree intentional murder and first degree worsened theft.

Iglesias made the plea during a hearing for a jury court, which would start this week.

King was a father of two boys who were 4 and 2 years old at the time of his murder.

“Shoot him”

According to judicial documents, Fisher and Iglesias went to King’s Home in the 400 block of Third Avenue South on November 24, 2023. After Fisher caught the Marijuana, he and Iglesias. King was close behind. Fisher, while standing on the sidewalk, turned around and shot King and they fled the stage in the vehicle of Iglesias.

A neighbor told the police that it was just before 5 p.m. when he heard someone shout outside: “Shoot him”, so he ran to his windshield and saw three people quickly move through the street. He said while the two men passed a car on the street, one of them turned around and shot King, who fell to the floor and rolled in front of the car.

The neighbor said that the two men, who wore dark-colored hoodies, came in an older, black Chevrolet-Sedan. He called 911 and gave help to King, who was on the street. He was unarmed.

King had no wrist when the police arrived on stage. He was declared dead in the Regions Hospital in St. Paul.

Later that night, Iglesias reported to law enforcement that he was there during the shooting.

Iglesias told the researchers that Fisher had stayed on his bank last week. He said that Fisher asked him for a ride and that they went to the South St. Paul house. He said that Fisher, while standing on the sidewalk by the grassy part of the curb, shot King. Iglesias said he drove the car out of the scene, according to the charges.

A woman told the researchers that she was in the home of Iglesias that evening when he and Fisher arrived there. Fisher asked her for a ride to Cambridge and she agreed. He changed his clothes. She said that Fisher ‘photographed someone’ during the ride, say the charges.