Final defendant sentenced for role in murder of Daniel Johnson

WCCO digital headlines: Afternoon of Dec. 5, 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Redby man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for his role in the 2019 murder of Daniel Alan Johnson on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Daniel Barrett, 32, was sentenced to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release, according to U.S. attorney Andrew Luger.   

Mia Sumner, 21, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting murder in the second degree. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Alexia Cutbank and Barrett both pleaded guilty to one count each of aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

Cutbank was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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Court documents say that Cutbank and Barrett, along Sumner, entered a garage where Johnson was known to live on Aug. 12, 2019. Cutbank fired multiple shots, killing him and seriously injuring another victim.  

Rose Siewert drove the three of them off Red Lake Indian Reservation. She pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, and was sentenced to four years in prison.

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