Davonquae J. Pettigrew, 18, was sentenced Friday morning by District Court Judge Derek Johnson.

Pettigrew pleaded guilty in May to voluntary manslaughter and intimidation with a dangerous weapon.

Johnson sentenced him to 10 years in prison for each offense and ordered that the two sentences be served consecutively, for a total maximum sentence of 20 years.

Pettigrew pleaded guilty to killing Patrick Walker, 18, and wounding Silas Hall, 20, on May 2, 2023.

At 7:11 p.m. that day, police and emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the 100 block of North 10th Street for a report of a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Walker was found laying on the sidewalk there and was pronounced dead at the scene.

While police were responding to North 10th Street, they received a report of a man with a gunshot wound in the emergency room at UnityPoint Health -Trinity Regional Medical Center. That man was Hall and police quickly determined that Hall and Walker were shot in the same incident.

Pettigrew was identified as the suspect and was arrested in Davenport on May 29, 2023.

He was charged with shooting the other two men from a vehicle driven by Haydin Mapel, 17, of Fort Dodge.

He was initially charged with first degree murder and attempted murder.

Like all criminal defendants being sentenced, Pettigrew had the right to address the court Friday. He declined to do so.

One victim impact statement was read during the sentencing hearing. A representative of the Domestic and Sexual Assault Outreach Center read a statement from Walker’s mother, Latrece Martin, who was not present in the courtroom.

In the statement, Martin described her son as her best friend, and added that she cannot sleep at night since his death.

“He’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone and he’s never coming back,” Martin wrote.

Johnson said that Pettigrew will be released from prison someday, and expressed his hope that he can turn his life around.

“I hope you can take that negative energy and turn it into something positive,” he said.

He added that he hopes Pettigrew will become a person who will not succumb to peer pressure and will want to be around positive people.

For her part in the crime, Mapel was initially charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder and aiding and abetting attempted murder. In May, she pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact. On June 3, she was sentenced to two years of probation and granted a deferred judgment, which means if she successfully completes her probation and pays a civil penalty and court costs, she will not have a criminal record.

The shooting of Walker and Hall was the first of a handful of homicides in Fort Dodge last year. One of those homicides was a direct result of Walker’s death. Pettigrew’s younger brother, Jameel Redding-Pettigrew, 15, was shot and killed at the intersection of Fourth Avenue South and 15th Street on the night of July 4, 2023.Jamarrion Davis, of Fort Dodge,, described as a friend of Walker, was convicted of first degree murder in that death. He is serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.