Jurors have convicted a co-defendant of first-degree murder for his role in the fatal driveby shooting of a woman in north Minneapolis nearly 16 months ago.

Tremaine Michael Bucholz, 27 of Minneapolis, was found guilty Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court in connection with the death on Aug. 9, 2023, of 34-year-old Stevi Rae Palacio, of Minneapolis, near Thomas and Oak Park avenues N.

Bucholz, who was found guilty of first-degree murder during a drive-by shooting and second-degree intentional murder, is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 30, when he will receive the mandatory life in prison with the opportunity for parole in 30 years.

Prosecutors said they believe Bucholz was a shooter in Palacio’s death, but they declined to say more at this stage.

His alleged accomplice, Derrick Lamond Johnson Sr., 52, of Minneapolis, is jailed in lieu of $2 million bail and is scheduled to go on trial on Jan. 13.

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Reported gunfire shortly after midnight sent officers to the scene, where they found Palacio on the sidewalk shot in the back. She was taken by emergency responders to HCMC, where she was soon pronounced dead.

Police obtained video from a resident’s doorbell camera, and it captured a cargo van stopping alongside Palacio before a gunshot from someone in the front passenger seat wounded her. Palacio started running, and the same person fired seven more shots, with one hitting her in the back.

A secondary question is the newsworthiness of publishing the content of the private email, one that Hegseth said she almost immediately regretted sending and doesn’t reflect how she perceives her son. Graham suggested that the newspaper wouldn’t do the same for the nominee of Democratic president-elect. ”The New York Times is out to destroy these nominees,” he said.

In its initial story, the Times wrote that it had obtained a copy of the email ”from another person with ties to the Hegseth family.”

”This was a piece of independently reported journalism published in the name of public awareness of the nominee to lead the largest department in the federal government,” Stadtlander said. ”We stand behind it completely.”

In many circumstances, an email from a mother to her son would be considered a private matter and out of bounds to a news organization, Rosenstiel said. But in this case, Hegseth, a former Fox News weekend host chosen by Trump to lead the Pentagon, has built himself into a public figure and is up for a very important job — and one that leads the military, which involves waging war and in which character is considered a fundamental trait.

”It makes this news, honestly,” Stadtlander said.

The Times wrote about Penelope Hegseth’s Fox interview on Wednesday, leading with her saying her son ”was not the same man he was in 2018 when she fired off an email accusing him of routinely abusing women and lacking decency and character.”

A St. Cloud-area technical and community college will get a student-support center, thanks to a $2 million challenge donation.

The St. Cloud Technical & Community College Foundation launched the campaign Wednesday and announced the J.A. Wedum Center for Student Success.

Along with the center, to be housed in an existing building, the college has a “comprehensive plan for student success to enhance first-generation retention and completion,” it said in a news release. It states “student accountability, intensive advising, and connected services increase student retention rates” for those first-generation students.

The college, founded in 1948, serves 2,800 first-generation students, which his more than half its population, the release said. “With the college serving such a large segment of first-generation students, their success is critical to the future of central Minnesota,” it said. The college has 75 program options that align with the type of jobs available in central and greater Minnesota.