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DAKOTA COUNTY
Man sentenced i*n revenge shooting
He lured his friend to an ambush Square town house, Eason March of attempted first-
drove Lindorff, 46, within two degree murder, conspiracy to
blocks of their scheduled meet- commit first-degree murder
BY FREDERICK MELD first-degree ing place, according to a crimi- and first-degree assault.
Pioneer Press murder. nal complaint. Lindorff walked Eason's sentence includes a
Eason, of to the street corner where Mur- prison term of 93/years and an
By all accounts,Harvey Lee St. Paul, ray, unsuspecting, stood wait- additional five years super-
Eason and Lee Damien Mur-
allegedly ing. "What's up, man, do you vised work-release.
ray were once brothers in spir- turned to need something?"said Murray. Prosecutors on Tuesday were
it,each trying to make sense of Richard Allen "I need you,Lee,"said Lindorff, unable to convince 1st District
hard-luck lives that brought Lindorff—the before taking a handgun out of Court Judge Karen Asphaug to
them to Minnesota from some Harvey Lee uncle of a 16- his right pocket and firing at increase Eason's sentence to 20
of Chicago's toughest neigh- Eason year-old boy least seven times. years — the maximum penalty
borhoods. Murray had Murray, who barely sur- allowed under the law—under
But when Eason, 38, sus- shot in the vived the assault, spent two the argument that Eason mas-
pected Murray, 26, of stealing neck in 1996 — and plied him months in a coma before giving terminded the shooting.
his drugs, cash and gun, with crack cocaine. Murray, investigators from the Eagan His defense attorney asked
authorities believe a "perfect who had been sentenced to 10 Police Department a detailed for 12 years.
storm of revenge" culminated years in prison for the fatal description in mid-October of Sticking to state sentencing
in a vicious shooting that left shooting,was out on probation the events. Lindorff was found guidelines, Asphaug said, "A
Murray comatose for months. and staying with relatives in guilty in April of attempted perfect storm of revenge came
Eason, 38, was sentenced Eagan the night Eason called second-degree murder and together when Harvey Eason
Tuesday in Dakota County Dis- him up and coaxed him into a was sentenced to 12 years in and Richard Lindorff met on
trict Court to 142/3 years in late-night get-together. prison.After weeks of testimo- Aug. 12, the focus of that
prison on the charge of aiding As Murray killed time Aug. ny from more than 40 witness- revenge being Lee Murray.They
and abetting in an attempted 12 outside his uncle's Wescott es, Eason was found guilty in are each equally involved."