A St. Cloud man will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a female coworker in 2022. A jury in Benton County last month found Michael Jordan Carpenter, 38, guilty of 1st-degree premeditated murder for shooting 28-year-old Nicole Michelle Hammond, who had rejected his romantic advances.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of a co-worker who rejected his repeated advances, Minnesota authorities say. Michael Carpenter, a 38-year-old convicted in August of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder,

Michael Jordan Carpenter killed Nicole Hammond after she texted him saying "she did not want to be touched or manipulated by him" at work, police said