Family and friends of Avontae King were back in the same Dakota County courtroom Thursday where the man who fatally shot him in 2023 was sentenced just a year ago.

This time it was for the shooter’s accomplice, Tre Manuel Iglesias, who in July pleaded guilty to his role in King’s killing outside his South St. Paul home — a murder that was over stolen marijuana and that one of King’s two young children witnessed through a window.

They spoke about how King was a loving father to his two sons and of the anguish and heartache they all experience every day because of Iglesias and Andrew Michael Fisher, who fired a lone shot, hitting the 26-year-old in the chest.

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