First Sentence Issued in Rochester Shootings & Attempted Robbery

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- An Olmsted County Judge has handed down the first of two sentences in a case involving a pair of shootings and an attempted robbery in Rochester.

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Both men charged in the case have entered guilty pleas. Rochester Police arrested the suspects several days after taking reports of the shooting and attempted robbery last fall.

The men charged in the case are 20-year-old Anthony Lavell Frazier and 20-year-old Christian Avery Miller.

Miller-Frazier (Olmsted County ADC photos)

Court documents charge both men in connection to a shooting that targeted an empty vehicle parked on Chardonnay Lane Northwest and a second shooting at a vehicle on 21st Avenue Southeast that left a person with injuries caused by shattered glass.

The shootings occurred on September 25. Court records also show both men were also charged with attempting to rob a person at a Southeast Rochester mobile home park three days earlier.

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Miller and Frazier were initially charged with one count each of aiding and abetting first-degree aggravated robbery and aiding and abetting second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

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In May, the charges against Miller were amended to simple robbery and aiding and abetting second-degree assault.

Early this week, Miller entered into a plea agreement that calls for him to admit to the robbery charge in exchange for the dismissal of the assault charge. Miller was then sentenced to five years probation after entering the plea agreement.

Last month, Frazier entered a guilty plea to a charge of aiding and abetting a drive-by shooting involving an occupied vehicle. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October.

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