Man sentenced for 1996 killing of Minneapolis man

A man who pleaded guilty to tying, gagging and strangling a Minneapolis man in his home 13 years ago has been sentenced to more than 35 years in prison.

Forty-six-year-old Rommal Bennett was sentenced Friday in the death of Wally Lundin after Lundin was found dead in his home on the northeast side of the city in 1996. Police say Bennett met Lundin at the Gay 90's club.

A man who said he dated Bennett in 1998 told authorities Bennett confessed to him that he had gone back to Lundin's home and strangled him.

In 2007, investigators linked DNA found in a condom at the crime scene with Bennett in a convicted offenders database.

Bennett is currently in a New York prison, serving time for a murder conviction.

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Information from: WCCO-TV

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