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Friday, January 12, 2018
Derrick Zechariah Smith, 29, will be sentenced to life in prison with possibility of parole in the shooting of 31-year-old Richard Ambers. Smith, Tyrel Patterson and Brandy Lee Jacques were also charged in a fatal shooting in Prior Lake.