A 15-year-old Fridley boy was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a 28-year-old man near a St. Paul apartment in October.

Nehemiah D. Robinson Bowes waived certification to adult court in July and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Oct. 12 killing of Riccardo Anthony Fleming, who was shot 11 times at Woodbridge Street and Wheelock Parkway on the city’s North End.

Fleming grew up in Robbinsdale and had been living in Nebraska. He was visiting his father’s side of the family in St. Paul when he was killed.

Police responded to multiple reports of shots fired about 9:50 p.m. and found Fleming lying in the street. He was pronounced dead at Regions Hospital.

Bowes told police in a Nov. 11 interview that he went to the apartment building to hang out with thr

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