A Minot man will spend 30 years in prison. He helped kill another man last year. Cole Ronnie Brown, 22, got his sentence on September 9, 2026. It happened in a Minot court.
Brown said he was guilty in April 2026. The charge is called accomplice to murder, extreme indifference. In plain words, that means he helped in a killing with no care for a life. It is a Class AA felony, the top level under North Dakota law.
The charge ties back to a killing on November 7, 2025. A man named Anthony William Redmond was stabbed to death. It happened at a home in northeast Minot.
A witness came forward after the killing. The witness told police that a woman named Autumn Tincher had talked about wanting someone to "beat up" Redmond. Court records say Redmond had said things about her.
Court papers say Brown, Tincher, and a man named Chozey Morsette all went to Redmond's home that morning. A fourth person went too. A fight broke out. Redmond got stabbed.
The judge gave Brown 40 years in prison. Ten of those years are on hold. That means Brown will serve 30 years with the state prison system. After he gets out, he will spend five years on watch by the state.
Brown gets credit for 285 days he already spent locked up. Under state law, he must serve at least 85 percent of his time, unless his sentence is later commuted.
He also must pay $125 in court costs. He owes $5,670 in restitution. He will split that cost with Tincher and Morsette.
Brown's new sentence runs at the same time as another 10 year term he is serving for holding fentanyl he planned to sell.
Morsette, 31, said he was guilty back in February 2026. It was the same charge, accomplice to murder, extreme indifference. He got 40 years too, with 20 on hold. That means Morsette will serve 20 years. He got credit for 173 days he had already served. He must serve at least 85 percent of his time too.
Tincher still faces her own charge of helping in a murder. Her case stays open. No court has found her guilty yet.
Everyone is presumed innocent until proved otherwise.
