22-year-old sentenced for role in Duluth drive-by homicide

Sanussi Tamsir Bangoura, 22, was sentenced on August 16 for his role in an August 2023 Duluth homicide. Bangoura was sentenced to 367 months for Aiding and Abetting Second Degree Murder, 39 months for Aiding and Abetting Second Degree Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and 93 months for the Drive by Shooting. The sentences will run concurrently.

“In the early afternoon of August 2, 2023, Mr. Bangoura and his codefendant, Brandon Capone Williams-Gillard, shot multiple times from a vehicle towards Paris Kadin Allen and a group of other men who were standing in the area of 2500 West 2nd Street in Duluth, MN,” explained the sentencing release. “The shooting caused the death of Paris Kadin Allen and injured a second man.”

“This senseless murder was felt far deeper than just West Second Street in Duluth,” said County Attorney Maki. “Those that survived the shooting are forever changed – Paris Allen lost his life and days after the final guilty verdict in this case, Paris Allen’s dad took his own life, suffering from a broken heart,” Maki continued.  “Today, we are thinking of the Allen family.  Tomorrow and every day after we maintain hope that irrational gun violence in our community will come to an end.”

Williams-Gillard was sentenced back in April to 480 months in prison.