
Getaway Driver in Rochester Shooting Sentenced to Jail
Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - The man who served as the getaway driver in a Rochester shooting will spend a month in jail.
A criminal complaint filed in Olmsted County Court against 22-year-old Ethan Raymond Callier of Rochester accused him of driving three people to the Ashland Apartments in northwest Rochester, where one of his passengers got out of the vehicle and allegedly exchanged gunfire with another man in the parking lot on May 19, 2023. The court document says Callier and another man, 25-year-old Michael King Jr. of St. Paul, were taken into custody after they drove away from the crime scene and were later stopped by Rochester police.
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King and a resident of the apartment complex, 29-year-old Joshua Adams, were both charged with second-degree assault, while King was also charged with drive-by shooting. According to the criminal complaint against them, witnesses to the incident differed on who fired first, but it states that Adams admitted firing his gun once, and King stated that he fired as many as a dozen shots before getting back inside Callier's vehicle and speeding away. No injuries were reported.
Callier was charged with second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon and entered a guilty plea to the charge in January. He was sentenced today to 30 days in jail with work-release privileges. He will also spend five years on probation and was fined $1,000.
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Adams earlier entered a guilty plea to second-degree assault. He was scheduled to be sentenced for the conviction in June of last year but failed to report to court and is now wanted on an arrest warrant.
The criminal case against King is still pending. His next court appearance is scheduled for August.
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