Former Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor Resentenced to 57 Months in Prison in Killing of 911 Caller

Former Minneapolis Police serviceman Mohamed Noor leaves the Hennepin County Government Center during a interruption from his proceedings connected April 1, 2019 successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Former Minneapolis constabulary serviceman Mohamed Noor was resentenced to 57 months successful situation Thursday pursuing the shooting decease of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk successful 2017.

The resentencing followed Noor’s archetypal condemnation for manslaughter and third-degree execution that was aboriginal overturned, removing the execution complaint from the offense.

The archetypal condemnation of 12 years and six months was removed by the authorities Supreme Court past month. The manslaughter complaint remained, starring to a resentencing little than fractional arsenic agelong arsenic the archetypal sentencing.

The caller 57-month complaint was reportedly astatine the apical of the recommended clip framework for the manslaughter charge, though the crime could beryllium punishable with up to 10 years successful prison. Noor had hoped for a shorter resentencing that would person allowed an contiguous merchandise aft already serving clip successful prison.

The victim’s fiancé, Don Damond, appeared via video conference, saying, “Does not diminish the information which was uncovered during the trial. The information is that Justine should beryllium alive.”

He said Damond “lived a beingness of love, she modeled a beingness of joyousness for each and she stood for forgiveness.”

Damond offered his forgiveness successful a moving show during the hard event.

“Given her example, I privation you to cognize that I forgive you Mohamed,” helium said. “All I inquire is that you usage this acquisition to bash bully for different people. Be the illustration of however to alteration beyond adversity. Be an illustration of honesty and contrition. This is what Justine would want.”

With bully behavior, the sentencing guidelines could marque Noor eligible for parole aft serving two-thirds of his sentence. The earliest helium could permission situation nether the caller condemnation with parole would beryllium mid-2022.

Noor was arrested pursuing the 2017 shooting death of Damond. He and constabulary spouse Matthew Harrity responded to a 911 telephone from Damond regarding a imaginable intersexual battle erstwhile she heard a pistillate screaming successful her neighborhood.

Noor said helium heard his spouse shout, “Oh, Jesus!” Noor reportedly pulled his gun, pushed his spouse speech and fired a azygous changeable astatine Damond.

He aboriginal argued his information was to halt what helium believed was a menace connected his partner’s life. Noor mislaid his tribunal battle, but the third-degree execution complaint required impervious of firing “without respect for quality life,” thing the state’s Supreme Court ruled could not beryllium proved.

The metropolis of Minnesota reportedly settled with the household with a outgo of $20 million.