A Cass Lake man was sentenced to 375 months in state prison for a murder in rural Cass Lake last year.
Twenty-one-year-old Montana Oshki-Ayaabe Cutbank entered a guilty plea to second-degree intentional murder last month.
According to Cutbank’s testimony, he fired a weapon at the victim, identified in court documents as “C.K.,” from the backseat of a vehicle.
Montana Cutbank, 21. Photo courtesy of the Beltrami County Jail Roster.
Cutbank fired a round from a sawed-off shotgun which struck C.K. in the head.
The vehicle Cutbank was in had stopped at a Beltrami County residence near Cass Lake on Nov. 24, 2020.
Cutbank was apprehended in Duluth four days later.
Cutbank will receive credit for 322 days served in local custody, serving the rest of his sentence in the St. Cloud men’s prison.
