Justin Kittleson sentenced to decade in prison for carjacking woman and her father outside Blaine Cub Foods

Man charged in armed carjacking of a father and daughter

UPDATE (Aug. 30, 2023): Justin Kittleson was sentenced Tuesday. What follows is a revised version of the original story.

MINNEAPOLIS
– A Maple Grove man was sentenced to a decade in prison Tuesday for an armed carjacking and shooting involving a woman and her father that happened last year outside of a Twin Cities grocery store.

The United States Attorney's Office says Justin Kittleson, 20, pleaded guilty to one count of carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.

On Sept. 24, 2022, Kittleson followed a man and his adult daughter out of the Blaine Cub Foods. As they were loading groceries into the woman's car, Kittleson pulled out a gun and demanded her keys.

Her father intervened, and Kittleson fired his handgun, grazing the father's ear. Kittleson then got in the woman's car and drove off.

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According to the criminal complaint, police used surveillance video and information from the public to track down Kittleson, and they executed a search warrant at a residence five days later. 

Investigators seized two firearms at the residence that were the same caliber as a shell casing found in the Cub Foods parking lot. They also found a sweatshirt that he was seen wearing during the carjacking.

Kittleson was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in prison for the carjacking charge, and 84 months for possession and use of a gun while committing a violent crime. He will serve his sentences consecutively for a grand total of 10 years and one month in prison.

Upon release, Kittleson will be on three years of supervised release.

NOTE: The video above is from Sept. 30, 2022.

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