Man gets over 8 years in prison for fatal Minneapolis shooting

Man sentenced in deadly Minneapolis shooting

A man will spend over eight years behind bars for a fatal shooting in Minneapolis last summer.

Kinglewes Edward McCaleb VI, 21, was sentenced on Tuesday to 8.3 years (100 months) in prison, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office. He has credit for 343 days already served.

McCaleb pleaded guilty last month to one count of first-degree manslaughter.

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As previously reported, on May 28, 2024, police found a man in a vehicle, later identified as 26-year-old Joseph Milligan, who was shot in the head on the 400 block of 23rd Avenue North and died a few days later. Police noted another adult and two children were in the vehicle when he was shot, but they were not injured.

Court documents say that a woman in the passenger’s seat, identified later as Milligan’s fiancé, was holding his bleeding head and said that the shooter, a family member of hers, had run away.

She initially told police that McCaleb was her brother, but later clarified that he was her cousin.

The woman said that McCaleb was angry with her and Mulligan because she had given McCaleb a car registered to her that he was supposed to take over making payments on; however, he was not paying, and they asked for the vehicle back, the criminal complaint says.

She believes McCaleb intentionally shot Mulligan, telling police, “…he [Victim] looked at [Defendant] in the eyes and [Defendant] let off a shot.”

“Mr. McCaleb’s actions exceeded the legal bounds of self-defense,” said Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. “This resolution accounts for both his behavior and the context in which it occurred. In another instance of needless gun violence, numerous lives have been changed forever.”

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