{"id":28758,"date":"2024-12-15T07:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28758"},"modified":"2024-12-15T07:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:03:12","slug":"texas-man-gets-100-years-prison-for-shootings-that-killed-1-wounded-others-in-nevada-and-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/texas-man-gets-100-years-prison-for-shootings-that-killed-1-wounded-others-in-nevada-and-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man gets 100 years prison for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada and Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher McDonnell, 32,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/thanksgiving-killing-rampage-nevada-arizona-texas-plea-39dbc55e70c70c13f815dd9b72441f6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty in October<\/a>\u00a0to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced him on Friday to a minimum of 100 years in prison,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/investigators\/man-sentenced-to-100-years-for-las-vegas-area-shooting-spree-that-killed-22-year-old-injured-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KLAS-TV reported<\/a>. If he\u2019s still alive, he would be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit for time served.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell of Tyler, Texas, his brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn McDonnell\u2019s then-wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, originally faced dozens of charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police and prosecutors say the trio began an 11-hour rampage on Nov. 26, 2020 that included apparently random shootings that killed Kevin Mendiola Jr., 22, at a convenience store in Henderson, near Las Vegas, and drive-by gunfire that wounded several other people.<\/p>\n<p>The group then continued into Arizona, where there were additional shootings, including one involving a police officer. All three were arrested after their car rolled over.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Lewis was the driver as the two brothers fired indiscriminately out of the vehicle\u2019s windows. Shawn McDonnell and Lewis are awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting rampage ended near the Colorado River town of Parker, Arizona, after a chase involving officers from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the crash of a car with a Texas license plate and the wounding of Shawn McDonnell by troopers wielding assault-style rifles, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Associated-Press-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Associated-Press-logo.png\" alt=\"Associated Press\" width=\"32\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/killing-shooting-rampage-nevada-arizona-texas-7acc9d0329bbfafe4dc6ef1143a81a89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/12\/15\/texas-man-gets-100-years-prison-for-shootings-that-killed-1-wounded-others-in-nevada-and-arizona\/\" title=\"Texas man gets 100 years prison for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada and Arizona\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,3],"tags":[434,10912,10147,8263,1428,3055,10914,147,10913],"class_list":{"0":"post-28758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-usa","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-clark-county","12":"tag-clark-county-district-court","13":"tag-henderson","14":"tag-las-vegas","15":"tag-nevada","16":"tag-parker","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tyler","19":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28760,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions\/28760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}