Minnesota man sentenced to 80 years for 2021 Bloomington fatal shooting

Posted on April 4, 2024

*Kentrell Brown, 21, was sentenced to 55 years for the murder charge. (WJBC file photo)*

BLOOMINGTON – A Minnesota man will spend 80 years in prison for shooting and killing a Bloomington man in 2021.

Kentrell Brown, 21, was convicted in January in McLean County Circuit Court of first-degree murder in connection to the March 7, 2021, shooting death of 26-year-old Natwan Nash.

Prosecutors said Brown shot Nash ten times in an apartment on Clearwater Avenue on Bloomington’s east side. Surveillance footage at the apartment complex gave detectives a lead and from there, they tracked Brown to Minnesota where he was arrested in May 2021.

Brown was sentenced to 55 years for the murder charge. There was an automatic 25 years added onto his sentence because the jury found that he was the triggerman. That is what led to the additional time behind bars.

Under state law, Brown must serve 100% of his sentence minus the roughly three years he’s spent in custody already.

He will also have to pay about $9,000 in restitution.

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