SIOUX FALLS (AP) - A 19-year-old Sioux Falls man has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to playing a role in a fatal January 2015 shooting.
Robert Montes pleaded guilty to being an accessory to murder in August in exchange for prosecutors dropping murder and manslaughter charges against him.
Montes admitted to driving while co-defendant Conner Hanson shot and killed 18-year-old Anthony Gabriel near a Sioux Falls mall.
Montes asked for his plea deal to be tossed out after jurors found Hanson not guilty of all charges last week. Prosecutors argued that the outcome of Hanson's trial had no bearing on Montes' plea deal.
Montes was sentenced Tuesday afternoon in the Minnehaha County Courthouse.
