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GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks teen was ordered Monday, Jan. 12, to serve
10 years for the attempted murder of five teens he shot at multiple
times while they were inside a vehicle.

Mason Wyatt Allery, 17, said during the hearing that he takes
responsibility for his actions and knows there's no excuse for
endangering the lives of others.

"I have spent a lot of time thinking about what happened, and every
night, I pray to God that the victims and their families can someday
forgive me," Allery said. "I'm truly sorry for the pain and fear I
caused."

He expressed gratitude that everyone came out of the Jan. 3, 2025,
shooting alive, and said not a day goes by that he doesn't think about
how much worse the situation could have been.

The crimes occurred shortly before 11 p.m. Jan. 3, 2025, when two
shootings occurred in quick succession in the 1000 block of North 42nd
Street in Grand Forks, according to an affidavit of probable cause
summary filed in the case. Allery and co-defendant Walker Michael Poitra
were determined to have fired into a vehicle occupied by five
individuals, shooting two of them during the second incident, the
summary said.

The remaining three were not struck by bullets, but Sarah Gereszek — prosecutor in Allery's case — said numerous shell casings were
recovered, and at least five were determined to have been fired by the
handgun Allery possessed that night.

Judge Theodore Sandberg remarked that, in his nearly 30-year law career,
he can't recall ever seeing a vehicle "this shot up."

"Frankly, based on all of the facts that I know in this case, there
should be at last three people dead and two people seriously wounded,"
Sandberg said.

The judge said he doesn't know if he's ever seen such a clear example of
divine intervention. He noted an evidence photo of a bullet indent on a
water bottle found inside the vehicle, and other bullets holes just shy
of going through the front windshield, instead entering the engine
compartment.

One victim provided a statement that Gereszek read aloud during the
hearing. It detailed the victim's experience that day, when she said
Allery and Poitra approached the vehicle with ski masks on and began
shooting. The victim said she and the other victims weren't part of a
prior argument believed to be Poitra and Allery's reason for bringing
guns out that night. Gereszek recounted text messages from Allery,
located by law enforcement, that said he had been maced and believed he
knew who did it.

"(In the messages, he was talking about how) he was going to get even by blowing up a car, about bullets and that he would be on the news,"
Gereszek said.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/local/grand-forks-teen-to-serve-10- years-for-firing-gun-at-vehicle-occupied-by-five-teens
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