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How many years have you ever seen a criminal getting sentenced, 10 years, 20 years or life imprisonment, but a court in America sentenced a criminal to a full 100 years. It was also said that if the criminal serves 100 years of sentence, then he will be eligible for parole in the year 2120.
A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for the crime of firing in two states on the occasion of Thanksgiving in 2020. A person was killed in Nevada in this firing.
What were the charges against the man?
Christopher McDonnell has been sentenced to 100 years, he is 32 years old. Christopher has been convicted of more than 20 crimes in October, including murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, he had weapons charges and being a criminal for illegally possessing a gun.
Clark County District Judge Tiera Jones on Friday sentenced Christopher to at least 100 years in prison. He also said that if he is alive even after 100 years, he will be eligible for parole in 2120.
There was an 11-hour long firing
Not only McDonnell but his brother Shawn McDonnell (34) and Shawn McDonnell’s then-wife, Kaylee Lewis (29), together faced dozens of charges. Police and lawyers say that the three created a ruckus in Las Vegas for 11 hours on November 26, 2020, in which they opened fire. In this firing, 22-year-old Kevin Mendiola Jr. was killed and one person was injured in a store in Henderson near Las Vegas.
After this, the group of these three fired continuously, all three were arrested after the car overturned. Prosecutors said Lewis, the driver, was driving the car while the other two brothers fired shots from the car window. Sean McDonnell and Lewis are awaiting trial.
How was the group caught?
Arizona Department of Public Safety officers pursued the vehicle, wounding Sean McDonnell with assault-style rifles after the car with Texas license plates crashed into the car and the gunfire stopped near the Colorado River town of Parker, Arizona.
