BURNSVILLE, Minn. — Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena announced Monday that a judge has given a 19-year-old probation and stayed his prison sentence following a 2021 fatal crash that killed two people.
Prosecutors say Leon Bond, who was 17 years old at the time of the crash, was racing with his sister in separate cars on County Road 42 in Burnsville two years ago on Easter Sunday. They were racing each other side-by-side at speeds witnesses say were approximately "100" miles per hour, when they hit another vehicle, killing both people inside, 22-year-old Tayler Nicole Garza of Woodbury and 22-year-old Dalton Lee Ford of Burnsville, according to court documents.
Earlier this month, Bond pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder, according to a news release.
Bond received an "adult sentence" of 25 years.
However, since his trial was under "extended juvenile jurisdiction" rather than adult court, his sentence was stayed by the judge.
Bond was put on juvenile probation until the age of 21 with several conditions, "including a long-term placement at the Red Wing Correctional Facility," according to the release.
His sister, Camille Dennis-Bond, was convicted last month of two counts of murder in the third degree, two counts of criminal vehicular homicide, one count of criminal vehicular operation resulting in great bodily harm and one count of careless driving. She is scheduled to be sentenced in March.
