Jail for shooter filmed on bus killing man outside Minneapolis apartment building

A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to up to 14 years in prison for a fatal shooting caught on video from a Metro Transit bus that happened to stop nearby in north Minneapolis.

William Vincent Johnson, of Minneapolis, was sentenced Monday in Hennepin County District Court after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 25, 2023, shooting of Mark D. Bradley, of St. Paul, in the 2200 block of N. Emerson Avenue.

Police arrested Johnson in south Minneapolis on March 13, 2023, in a separate case of illegal possession of ammunition. He was also sentenced to five years in prison for that offense. Johnson will serve both sentences concurrently.

Taking into account time served since his arrest in the murder, Johnson is expected to serve nearly 8 1/2 years of his 14 1/4-year sentence in prison and the remainder on supervised release.

Shortly after noon, police responded to the scene of the shooting and found Bradley with gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage from a church and a bus, which had “coincidentally stopped near the scene of the shooting as it occurred,” corroborated witness accounts that Bradley had left an apartment building and was shot by one of the two men as they entered.

The complaint did not provide a motive for the killing.