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A Las Vegas judge has sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in jail for his position in a two-state capturing on Thanksgiving 2020 by which he killed a person in Nevada and engaged in a shootout with regulation enforcement in Arizona.
Christopher McDonnell, 32, of Tyler, Texas, pleaded responsible in October to greater than 20 felonies, together with homicide, tried homicide, homicide conspiracy, weapon fees and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced him on Friday to a minimal of 100 years in jail, KLAS-TV reported. Although unlikely to be alive by then, he can be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit score for time served.
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McDonnell, his brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn McDonnell’s then-wife Kayleigh Lewis, 29, have been initially slapped with dozens of fees.
The three of them started an 11-hour rampage on Nov. 26, 2020, once they carried out what seemed to be random shootings that killed Kevin Mendiola Jr., 22, at a comfort retailer in Henderson, Nevada, and wounded a number of different individuals with drive-by gunfire.
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Christopher McDonnell can be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit score for time served. (iStock)
The group then traveled throughout the state border to Arizona, the place they carried out further shootings, together with one involving a police officer.
The three accused criminals have been arrested after their automotive rolled over.
Prosecutors stated Lewis was driving as the 2 brothers fired indiscriminately out of the home windows of the automobile.
Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced Christopher McDonnell to a minimal of 100 years in jail. (iStock)
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The capturing rampage ended close to Parker, Arizona, following a pursuit involving officers from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, a automotive crash of a automobile with a Texas license plate and Shawn McDonnell struggling wounds from troopers carrying rifles, in accordance with police.
Shawn McDonnell and Lewis are nonetheless awaiting trial.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
