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Nov 9, 2009 5:20 pm US/Central
Richfield Man Sentenced In Sister's Stabbing Death
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Guuci Beyena Mokonnen, 24, was arrested on May 3 in connection with his sister's death.
Hennepin County Sheriff's Office
A Richfield man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for murder in the first-degree and assault in the second-degree with a possibility of parole for the stabbing death of his sister.
Guuci Beyena Mokonnen, 24, was arrested on May 3 in connection with his sister's death.
According to the criminal complaint, two people found his sister, Tobista Beyena Mokonnen, lying in a parking lot, holding her 8-month-old child. The witnesses said they called police after they saw her eyes moving back and forth and heard her make gurgling noises. The child was crying.
When police arrived, the woman was surrounded by a pool of blood and was bleeding from the head and neck. Paramedics pronounced Tobista dead at the scene.
Officers took the child, who was not injured, to Hennepin County Medical Center. The child has since been released to family members.
A short time after she was found, police said Mokonnen phoned them from the Mall of America in Bloomington, saying he had killed his sister. When officers picked him up, they noticed what appeared to be dried blood on his hands, coat and pants.
Mokonnen told police he was angry with his sister because she wouldn't let him live with her. He said that because of that, he became homeless and unemployed. He had been staying with his brother, and he took a knife from his brother's apartment, the criminal complaint said.
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