From heartbreaking to infuriating

When any 15-year old young man is senselessly murdered, it's heartbreaking. But when it's a young man who was seemingly a pillar of a community (i.e. north Minneapolis) otherwise plagued with myriad problems, it's all the more devastating. 

All that said, the sadness likely turned to righteous anger in the minds of many when the background of the perpetrator was learned. 

A 29-year-old man with a violent criminal history was charged Tuesday with fatally shooting a star Minneapolis high school football player in the head two weeks ago on a North Side street.

Cody L. Fohrenkam was charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree intentional murder in the death of 15-year-old Deshaun Hill, a North Community High School sophomore.

Court documents listed Fohrenkam as living in Cloquet and Minneapolis.

Minneapolis police arrested him last week at the Carlton County jail, where he was being held on trespassing and drug possession charges.

He was taken to Minneapolis and booked Friday into the Hennepin County jail, where he remained without bail ahead of a court appearance Wednesday.

This is becoming an all too familiar tale here in the Twin Cities. Individuals with a history of violent crime are somehow back on the street after serving light sentences and then in no time escalate their offenses. And what was it that could have possibly set off this scumbag to kill a 15-year old kid? 

Video surveillance showed Fohrenkam walking east on Golden Valley Road as Hill walked toward him. They passed each other, "close enough to possibly brush shoulders."

Hill kept walking, but Fohrenkam stopped just before three shots can be heard on the video. A tree blocked the camera from showing Fohrenkam during the gunfire, but the two "were the only two people on the street at the time the shots were fired."

The kid brushed shoulders with the guy and it set him off to the point he felt compelled to fire three bullets into Hill? Unreal. 

If this Fohrenkam is convicted of this murder, anything less than a life sentence with no possibility of parole will be a grave injustice. 

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