A man recently acquitted of killing a St. Paul mother in her home in 2015 was found guilty Friday for his role in a brazen, and fatal, Minneapolis crime spree that occurred later that same night.

Albert George McIntosh, 32, of Minneapolis, was convicted alongside his alleged girlfriend in Hennepin County District Court of aiding and abetting robbery, burglary and murder for a series of strongarm incidents that targeted a Hispanic neighborhood “because people there were more likely to carry cash and less likely to call police,” prosecutors said.

While the robbery and burglary charges were in the first degree, the murder charges were in the second, meaning the act was unplanned.

McIntosh was acquitted last year of the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Sarah Wierstad in her home in St. Paul’s Railroad Island neighborhood on Oct. 18, 2015. His attorney, Christopher Zipko, said at the time McIntosh was “stunned” by the verdict and “obviously relieved the truth came out.”

But Hennepin County prosecutors proved Friday that later that same night, McIntosh was part of a group of people that robbed a Minneapolis man, shot and killed another, and finally committed a home invasion before firing shots among themselves.

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St. Paul police chief says budget cuts would cut officer ranks; some on council not convinced “I want to scream and I want to cry at the same time. Does that make sense?” Wierstad’s mother, Julie Zietlow, said following the verdict. “In Ramsey County things didn’t go the way we wanted. Now, I’m elated and I’m saddened at the same time.”

In the Hennepin County case, McIntosh’s alleged girlfriend, Michelle Koester, 43, was one of two drivers that night — but the strongarm duties fell to McIntosh and two other men, prosecutors said.

Assistant Hennepin County attorney Therese Galatowitsch said McIntosh was “the man who was in charge when they went out into the field.” Koester, on the other hand, organized the spree by calling everyone together, Galatowitsch said.

First the group robbed a man in the 2600 block of Bloomington Avenue South, before moving on to a second, and fatal, Minneapolis encounter.

Julio Mozo-Cuate, 43, was sitting in his car in an alley behind his home in the 3700 block of First Avenue South when the group approached and tried to rob him. When Mozo-Cuate resisted, authorities say McIntosh shot him multiple times; Mozo-Cuate later died at a nearby hospital from gunshot wounds to his chest, pelvis and abdomen.

The group then invaded a home in the 3000 block of 19th Avenue South — accosting a man, his wife and two children — before leaving with cards, cash and a Playstation.

After that, the group then reportedly turned on each other: Authorities say McIntosh fired 13 shots into a car in which the other two men were riding.

Koester was convicted of charges identical to McIntosh — and was additionally convicted of aiding an offender after the fact for trying to sell or use the stolen items.

The other three people involved, Alvin Bell, Isiah Harper, and Shannon Haiden, have already pleaded guilty to lesser charges related to the incident but have yet to be sentenced.

McIntosh was acquitted in September of Wierstad’s death, which occurred just prior to the Minneapolis spree.

Prosecutors then argued McIntosh was the one who shot the 24-year-old single mother as she begged to get her cellphone back, so she could arrange to meet her 5-year-old daughter that night.

But Ramsey County officials attempted to convict McIntosh of second degree murder — thus having to prove that he was the one who pulled the trigger. Additionally, investigators never recovered the gun used in the crime.

Hennepin County, on the other hand, charged McIntosh with aiding and abetting — and only had to prove he had a role in the crime.

“We talked about that. They (Ramsey County prosecutors) may have gone for too much gusto,” mother Zietlow said.

During Wierstad’s trial, Harper testified that McIntosh was the shooter. But his attorney, Zipko, argued that Harper’s testimony was unreliable and contradicted testimony from a bystander on the scene.

Bell, 26, of St. Louis Park pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree murder in the Wierstad killing prior to McIntosh’s acquittal. Isiah Harper also pleaded to first-degree burglary in that case.