Cedric Berry and Berry Davis were sentenced to life without the possibility of release for fatally shooting Monique Baugh on Dec. 31, 2019, in which they were convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Berry, 42, of Minneapolis, and Davis, 42, of Brooklyn Park, were also convicted of kidnapping, for which Berry received 158 months with 557 days credit for time served, and Davis received 161 months with 449 days for time served.
Both men were also convicted of attempted second-degree murder of Baugh’s boyfriend whom they tried to kill the same day she was murdered. Berry and Davis were both sentenced to 240 months in prison, which will be served concurrently to the kidnapping sentences.
The life sentences without the possibility of release Berry and Davis received will be served consecutively to the kidnapping and attempted murder sentences.
In February 2020, Berry and Davis were indicted by a Hennepin County grand jury on first-degree premeditated murder. On June 4, 2021, a trial jury found them guilty of the charges they faced.
At the sentencing this afternoon, multiple victim impact statements were submitted in writing and read by Baugh’s family and friends, saying what a remarkable and beloved young woman she was.
EARLIER REPORT:
According to the criminal complaints, around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, a man with a black mask used a key to enter a home in the 4800 block of Humboldt Avenue North and shot Baugh’s boyfriend four times while he was sitting on the steps to the second floor. His three-year-old child was nearby on a couch and his one-year-old was sleeping upstairs, where the boyfriend fled from the gunman.
Relatives arrived at the house to take care of the children while Baugh’s boyfriend was rushed to the hospital. One of the relatives was Baugh’s mother who noted that the key dropped by the shooter belonged to Baugh, and that Baugh would normally be home at that time of day, the complaint continues.
At 6:38 p.m., three shots were fired in an alley in the 1300 block of Russell Avenue North. When police arrived, they found Baugh, her hands bound by tape, dead from three bullet wounds, the complaint states.
Further investigation determined that Baugh had been called on her private cell phone that afternoon by Elsa Segura. Under the guise of an interested home buyer, Segura lured Baugh to the house in Maple Grove where Baugh would be abducted in a U-Haul shortly after 3:00 p.m., the complaint states.
