The court properly imposed consecutive sentences. Defendant committed the attempted robbery by brandishing a shotgun and demanding money. Then, in a separate act, unnecessary to the commission of attempted robbery, defendant killed the victim with the shotgun, thus making the attempted robbery a wholly separate crime from the manslaughter (see, People v Yong Yun Lee,
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