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33 years for killing man at Howard Lake company where shooter, wife and victim worked
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33 years for killing man at Howard Lake company where shooter, wife and victim worked

A man has been sentenced to more than 33 years in prison for a shooting outside a Wright County business where the shooter, his wife and the victim worked.

Kevin Uriel Zelaya Asencio, 24, of Glencoe, Minn., was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional homicide and second-degree assault in connection with the March 2023 shooting of Adrian Montano Medina in the parking lot of Dura Supreme . manufacturing company in Howard Lake.

With credit for time served since his arrest, Zelaya Asencio is expected to serve the first 21 years of his 33-year prison sentence and the remainder on supervised release.

The District Attorney’s Office said it based its criminal complaint on interviews with witnesses and Zelaya Asencio, along with physical evidence and surveillance video.

Numerous 911 calls reported the shooting, including one from a woman screaming. A caller gave law enforcement the license plate of a truck that Zelaya Asencio drove from the parking lot.

Police arrived to find Medina in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Minutes later, a sheriff’s deputy saw Zelaya Asencio’s pickup truck traveling on Hwy. 12 in Waverly. Zelaya Asencio was arrested and the deputy found an AR-15 assault rifle in the truck.