He helped gun down a North High senior in 2016. A judge just sent him to prison

One of two teens charged with gunning down a North High School senior as he sat in an apartment complex parking lot in 2016 has been sentenced.

Debrylan Bell, 18, died outside of Woodgate Apartments on Oct. 5, 2016, after 20 to 30 rounds were fired at his car. Authorities later arrested Dennis Saquan McGaugh III and Terasha Diane Presley-Dupree and charged them with first-degree intentional and premeditated murder.

According to court records, Bell was shot at with three different kinds of ammunition fired from at least two guns, and witnesses saw McGaugh and Presley-Dupree speeding away from the parking lot, near 21st and Oliver, in a black SUV after the shooting. A GPS monitoring device McGaugh was ordered to wear in another criminal case also placed him at the scene, Sedgwick County District Court records say.

The killing was connected to “a dispute among acquaintances. It was not a random act," Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said by e-mail Tuesday. Exactly why Bell was killed remains unclear nearly two years later.

McGaugh, who was 17 when the shooting happened, pleaded no contest in April to voluntary manslaughter and criminal discharge of a firearm, court records show. He is 19 now.

On June 15 District Judge Ben Burgess ordered McGaugh to serve 71 months in prison.

Presley-Dupree, 20, is scheduled for a jury trial July 16. She faces life in prison without parole eligibility for 50 years if convicted.