MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Xavier Sevilla, the 17-year-old charged in connection to the 2020 Mayfair Mall mass shooting, accepted a plea deal Friday and will be sentenced in a few months.
Sevilla was previously charged with eight counts of felony first-degree reckless injury. He was charged as an adult in July after the state Supreme Court ruled the case could be tried in adult court.
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Prosecutors say Sevilla, who was 15 years old at the time, entered Mayfair Mall with a concealed handgun with a friend on Nov. 20, 2020. He became involved in an argument with four other people and it escalated into the 15-year-old opening fire. Eight people were hospitalized, including the suspect's friend, three of the people in the other group, and four shoppers.
The mass shooting sparked a massive police response to the mall and a manhunt for the suspect. Sevilla left the mall with the help of his family, the state says, but police later arrested him.
Sevilla's plea deal dismisses three of the first-degree reckless injury charges, the use of a dangerous weapon charge, and the carrying a concealed weapon charge. However, the deal also required Sevilla to change his plea to guilty for the remaining five first-degree reckless injury charges.
He faces up to 25 years in prison for each count and is expected to be sentenced on March 30.
