WILLMAR, Minn. — A Minneapolis man was sentenced to prison for more than 38 years stemming from a 2024 crime spree that started with a domestic assault reported at a Lyndale Avenue apartment in South Minneapolis and ended with a fatal shooting outside Willmar in west-central Minnesota.

Ameer Musa Matariyeh, 27, pleaded guilty in August to second-degree murder in the killing of 55-year-old Jerome Skluzacek, of New London. Matariyeh also pleaded guilty to attempted murder of another man from Lake Lillian, whom he shot while fleeing police.

Matariyeh was sentenced Monday in Kandiyohi County District Court to the presumptive prison terms under state sentencing guidelines of 306 months for second-degree murder and 153 months for attempted second-degree murder. The sentences will run consecuti

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