MPLS Man Killed Infant In Front Of Father: Sentencing Announced

MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County District Court Judge sentenced Jquan McInnis to at least 60 years in prison for shooting and killing one man and killing an infant in front of the baby’s father, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday.

McInnis, 20, was 17 years and 7 months when he fired six shots into a car killing the 20-year-old Gustav Christianson II and seven-month-old Jayden Redden on Oct. 9, 2016. Late Thursday afternoon, Hennepin County District Court Judge Jeannice Reding, reading extensively from her sentencing memo, called McInnis’ double homicide, “brazen and heartless.”

She sentenced McInnis to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years on each of the two first-degree murder charges and ran them consecutively. He will be almost 78-years-old before he can be considered for release.

Judge Reding also gave him credit for more than three years already served in jail, according to a news release.

According to investigators, McInnis believed Christianson had stolen from him. He obtained a gun and when he passed a car parked near 26th Street East and 11th Avenue South with Christianson inside, he told his companion to drive and park a block away.

McInnis put his hood up to hide his identity, ran through several yards and fired five times, killing Christianson. As he was leaving, McInnis fired one more shot through the car’s back window, striking the infant in his car seat, although missing the baby’s father, the driver of the car.

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