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• Apple Valley man sentenced to 40 years for slaying of teen at Minneapolis park (newsbreak.com) — An Apple Valley man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for fatally shooting a 19-year-old during a 2025 dispute at a Minneapolis park. Investigators later searched his Apple Valley home and found extensive phone contact from his wife after the shooting, and he was arrested months later following witness accounts of the confrontation.
   

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