A trial commenced Tuesday for a Minot man facing two felony charges for his role in an October 2024 hotel shooting, but a verdict from the jury wasn’t required after he entered guilty pleas to both charges.

Deyan Robert Luetzen, 23, Minot, appeared in North Central District Court for trial Thursday morning alongside co-defendant Shaquille Means, 32, Parshall. The three day trial was canceled after Luetzen entered a change of plea, pleading guilty to one count of reckless endangerment-extreme indifference-dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm-felon or violent misdemeanor, both Class C felonies.

A third individual, Chance James Braun, 25, Minot, pleaded guilty to identical Class C felonies in January, and was sentenced to serve five years with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with three years suspended. Means’ trial has been rescheduled to commence on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

According to court documents, Minot Police were dispatched to a north Minot hotel on Oct. 6, 2024, for a reported shooting. Luetzen was detained as he was fleeing from the scene, and two firearms were recovered outside the hotel.

Officers found more than 50 spent brass casings in the hallway of the hotel outside the room Luetzen was renting. Luetzen was shot in the exchange, but told investigators he was alone in his room sleeping after a party and didn’t know who shot him.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Braun and Luetzen were recorded on the hotel’s video surveillance running down the stairs of the hotel moments after the shooting. Braun told investigators in an interview on Oct. 7 that the three men had been hanging out in Luetzen’s room, and Means left the room after he and Luetzen had a fist fight.

Braun said he and Luetzen decided to leave the hotel, and began taking fire from Means who was hiding in the stairwell between the second and third floors.

Judge Gary Lee set Luetzen’s sentencing for Friday, July 18.