A Mounds View man was sentenced Wednesday to just under a year in jail and five years of probation for shooting a 15-year-old girl in the foot during a fight at a St. Paul park last summer.

Arlanders Marshall, 25, pleaded guilty in September to second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a person prohibited because of a violent crime conviction.

The victim’s mother told police the 11 a.m. July 13 shooting at Roy Wilkins Park stemmed from the mother’s cooperation with prosecutors against Marshall’s girlfriend in a Washington County robbery case. The mother said Marshall’s girlfriend had recently gone to court on a robbery charge and learned from police reports that the mother had talked to police; the mother also was charged in the case.

She said the girlfriend was upset and gave pepper spray to some girls, who used it on the mother’s children the night before. The mother and the woman “had words” on Snapchat after that.

Arlanders Marshall (Courtesy of the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office)

The mother told police that she, along with her 15-year-old daughter and other family members, were at Roy Wilkins Park, formerly known as Lewis Park, on the city’s North End. While they were near their vehicle, she said, a car pulled up and Marshall and two women got out, yelling about the previous robbery.

The girlfriend pulled her from a vehicle and punched her with a hard-covered lighter, then pepper-sprayed both her and her daughter.

She said she saw the girlfriend hand a gun to Marshall, who shot at them multiple times. The teen then yelled she’d been shot, and the group drove away.

Officers found 14 shell casings at the scene, and the teen’s family vehicle had four bullet holes in the hood.

A search of Marshall’s apartment turned up ammunition with the same headstamp as the spent casings collected at the scene; police did not find a gun.

Location data from a cellphone connected to Marshall placed the phone in the area of the shooting.

Marshall’s girlfriend faced the same charges he did, but they were dismissed in August, with an attorney’s office spokesman explaining prosecutors believed they could not prove the case against her based on the evidence.

At Marshall’s sentencing, Ramsey County District Judge DeAnne Hilgers granted downward departures from state sentencing guidelines on both counts. She stayed a five-year prison term on the assault and a three-year sentence on the gun charge.

The judge imposed a 360-day jail sentence on both counts and gave Marshall credit for the 128 days he’d already spent in custody.

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