Michael Lamart Dennis II, 25, Minot, was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison, with a requirement that he serve 20 years, followed by five years of supervised probation, for the Jan. 12 shooting death in Minot of Dominick Stephens, 29.
Dennis was sentenced to 20 years in prison, concurrent with the first sentence, for the attempted murder of Stephens’ passenger, Patrick Bost, 28.
Stephens was shot twice in the back as he was driving a car through northwest Minot, fleeing a vehicle from which Dennis and his co-defendant Donald Lee Cooper Jr., 27, were reportedly firing shots. Stephens crashed his vehicle into a boulder in front of the Minot State University Dome at 6:07 a.m. on Jan. 12 and died of his injuries. Bost, a passenger in Stephens’ vehicle, was not injured. The driver of the other vehicle was Marcus Jeremaine Lee, 22.
Michael Lamart Dennis II, 25, Minot, was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison, with a requirement that he serve 20 years, followed by five years of supervised probation, for the Jan. 12 shooting death in Minot of Dominick Stephens, 29.
Dennis was sentenced to 20 years in prison, concurrent with the first sentence, for the attempted murder of Stephens’ passenger, Patrick Bost, 28.
Stephens was shot twice in the back as he was driving a car through northwest Minot, fleeing a vehicle from which Dennis and his co-defendant Donald Lee Cooper Jr., 27, were reportedly firing shots. Stephens crashed his vehicle into a boulder in front of the Minot State University Dome at 6:07 a.m. on Jan. 12 and died of his injuries. Bost, a passenger in Stephens’ vehicle, was not injured. The driver of the other vehicle was Marcus Jeremaine Lee, 22.
