MANKATO — The driver who aided his friend in fleeing the scene of a February 2024 homicide in Mankato was ordered to serve probation with conditions in juvenile court.
Mohammad Mustafa Abdallah, 18, was recently adjudicated delinquent in juvenile court on an aiding an offender to avoid arrest offense. Juvenile adjudication means the charge was proven in juvenile court, similar to a conviction in district court.
Abdallah was 17 at the time of the Feb. 15 homicide, committed by fellow 17-year-old Emmanuel Lavelle Isaac against Marcus Romaine Cargill Jr., 19.
Isaac shot Cargill, of Mankato, five times at close range near the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets.
The murder was part of “a series of escalating events” involving Isaac and Cargill over a four- to five-month period, Judge Kristine Weeks said at the sentencing for Isaac
She referred to a fight between the two at a Halloween party, a reported shooting in Isaac’s neighborhood and friends of the two fighting in school.
Isaac was charged with second-degree murder as an adult, eventually being sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison in December, minus time already served. Abdallah was the driver while Isaac fired at Cargill.
Afterward Isaac and Abdallah swapped vehicles with Trevis Raykwon Toomer, 23, of Mankato, who was convicted on an aiding an offender to avoid arrest charge last year. Toomer received a stayed prison sentence.
Law enforcement officers later apprehended Isaac and Abdallah in Breckenridge near the North Dakota border.
As part of Abdallah’s probation, he was set to transition home from a juvenile detention facility. He is required to complete outpatient chemical dependency treatment as part of his probation conditions and must comply with drug testing.