RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A Rapid City man will serve 15 years in prison for fatally shooting another man last June.
Thirty-four-year-old Mark Heinen received the maximum sentence Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the death of 23-year-old Kiawe (kee-AH’-vee) Walker.
Heinen earlier admitted to shooting Walker while high on methamphetamine after Walker hit him. Heinen said the shooting happened at a Rapid City storage facility where he had been living and where a female friend had arranged to buy drugs from Walker.
Walker walked into a Burger King restaurant with a bullet wound and asked employees for help. Emergency workers were unable to save him.
The Rapid City Journal (https://bit.ly/2opfmTZ ) reports Heinen’s lawyer said the shooting followed a “robbery gone bad.” Heinen apologized to the victim’s mother and girlfriend after sentencing.
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Information from: Rapid City Journal, https://www.rapidcityjournal.com
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