{"id":35943,"date":"2024-12-15T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35943"},"modified":"2024-12-15T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:24:31","slug":"man-sentenced-to-100-years-in-prison-for-nevada-and-arizona-shooting-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35943","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 100 years in prison for Nevada and Arizona shooting rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police say Christopher McDonnell, his brother and brother\u2019s wife had 11-hour run of random shootings that killed a man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/arizona\">Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in October to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Clark county district judge Tierra Jones sentenced him on Friday to a minimum of 100 years in prison, KLAS-TV reported. If he\u2019s still alive, he would be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit for time served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">McDonnell of Tyler,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a>, his brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn McDonnell\u2019s then wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, originally faced dozens of charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police and prosecutors say the trio began an 11-hour rampage on 26 November 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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/15\/christopher-mcdonnell-shooting-nevada-arizona\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say Christopher McDonnell, his brother and brother\u2019s wife had 11-hour run of random shootings that killed a man 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[31629,2031,6010,1415,1530],"class_list":["post-35943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-100-years","tag-arizona","tag-jailed","tag-nevada","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35945,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35943\/revisions\/35945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}