In what was described as a "workplace love triangle" that led to a 20-year-old man being fatally shot, the convicted shooter has received a prison term of 33 years. 

The March 2023 killing occurred outside Dura Supreme Cabinetry in Howard Lake, Minnesota, where the shooter, his wife and the victim reportedly worked.

Kevin Uriel Zelaya Asencio, 24, of Glencoe, Minn., was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional murder and second-degree assault in connection with the March 2023 shooting of Adrian Montano Medina. With credit for time in jail since his arrest, Zelaya Asencio is expected to serve the first 21 years of his 33-year term in prison and the balance on supervised release.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the County Attorney’s Office said it based its criminal complaint on interviews with witnesses and Zelaya Asencio, along with physical evidence and surveillance video.

According to the complaint and other court documents:

The newspaper and other media outlets say that when Asencio was arrested a deputy found an AR-15 assault-style rifle in the pickup.

News channel KSTP reported that Asencio was suspicious his wife and Medina were romantically involved and his wife told him that morning that she wanted to end their marriage. Asencio then left work, drove to his apartment and retrieved an AR-15. He then drove back to work and parked near Medina’s vehicle. Shortly after noon, Medina and Zelaya Asencio’s wife left the Dura Supreme building together and got in Medina’s vehicle to have lunch together. Asencio walked to Medina’s vehicle, got in the back seat and ordered Medina to “either leave the vehicle or drive away,” the news station reported citing the criminal complaint. When Medina refused to comply. shot Medina in the head. He was later arrested in his pickup truck.

Asencio was convicted of one count of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault.