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Video take from phone recovered in February shooting shows Owyn Bellikka firing weapon

 

One of two men from separate cases charged with a felony weapons count, who was revealed through a February homicide investigation, is going to prison.

Eighteen-year-old Owyn Enrique Raul Bellikka, of Austin, was sentenced to five years in prison in Mower County District Court Thursday for felony possession of ammo/any firearm after being convicted or adjudicated for a crime of violence.

He was given credit for 63 days in jail.

Bellikka was adjudicated in July of 2023 for second degree assault with a dangerous weapon. Video evidence recovered from a phone found in the backseat of a vehicle in which Opoka James Bot Lob Nathanael, 27, and another individual were allegedly shot by a 16-year-old on Feb. 15 provided the connection. 

Nathanael died from his wounds at the scene.

Bellikka was arrested on March 6, in the 700 block of Ninth Avenue SW, but declined to speak to law enforcement. According to the complaint, Bellikka was previously adjudicated delinquent for second degree assault with a dangerous weapon in July of 2023.

Photos and video taken from the recovered phone allegedly show the juvenile charged in the February shooting brandishing a .45 handgun.

A text conversation on Feb. 10, just days before the fatal shooting to a “Crowyn” included three photos of the gun handled by the juvenile as well as the juvenile asking “U had got the bullets.”  

Responding texts show Crowyn responding by saying he was pulling up and “let me come in.”  Two days later, on Feb. 12, Crowyn sent the juvenile a video in which the video taker appears to be the juvenile who is sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle. The video was focused on the gun that appears to be the same weapon from days previous before the juvenile steps out and fires five rounds on the side of the road.   

Then, turning to the vehicle, the juvenile hands the gun to Bellikka, who reaches out across the interior of the car and shoots the gun three more times out of the open door of the passenger side.  

The detective and an officer went to the location the phone was tracked to near 31st Street NW north of 12th Avenue NW and south of 20th Avenue NW in Austin and discovered six .45 bullet casings.  

A second man, 18-year-old Gavin Skattebo, was arrested just days after Bellikka due to the same homicide investigation and has also been charged with felony firearm possession while being convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a crime of violence.

Skattebo was previously adjudicated as a delinquent for terroristic threats in 2019. 

Video obtained during the murder investigation and dated to around 12:22 p.m. the day of the shooting allegedly shows Skattebo holding a Glock 9/19 handgun with an extended magazine.

The complaint states that in the video Skattebo’s face is clearly visible and the gun appears consistent with the gun held by a juvenile in another video. The complaint goes on to say that the juvenile previously told police that the Glock was a gun Nathanael suspected of being stolen from him on Feb. 15.

Skattebo is scheduled for an omnibus hearing on Friday afternoon in Mower County District Court.