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Face tattoo maniac sentenced to 100 years for shootings that killed 1, wounded others in Nevada, Arizona |
2024-12-16 |
Christopher McDonnell, 32, of Texas landed the life sentence Friday after pleading guilty in October to more than 20 felonies in the horror. The creepy-looking killer claimed he was "God" during the slay spree, during which he fatally shot a man in a 7-Eleven store in Nevada on Thanksgiving in November 2020 before speeding off in a car and randomly shooting at others from it. Kevin Mendiola Jr., 22, died after shielding his girlfriend from the bullets. In court, three victims recalled their terrifying run-ins with the sick gunman, whose face is tattooed to look like a cracked skull with a cross etched between his eye sockets. "I call him ’Skeletor,’ " testified a man who dodged McDonnell’s bullets zipping past him as he left the 7-Eleven, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. McDonnell eventually turned his gun on the man’s daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter, who were trapped in a parked car as he menaced them. "I said, ’Please don’t shoot. I don’t have any money. You can take my car. You can take anything you want. Please don’t shoot,’ " the daughter told the court. McDonnell then leveled the gun at the baby in the back seat of the family’s car before getting into his own car and driving off. "I heard him say he was God and that there is an upcoming war coming," the daughter said. McDonnell’s brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn’s then-wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, were also allegedly in the killer’s vehicle at the time and joined in on the gruesome mayhem, which lasted 11 hours and continued across the state line into Arizona. The rampage finally ended after a high-speed chase and shootout with Arizona state troopers during which one officer took a bullet. Prosecutors said Christopher McDonnell’s sister-in-law was behind the wheel while he and his brother fired from the car’s windows. Lewis was found guilty in the case, although the charges she was convicted of are unclear, and is set to be sentenced in June. Shawn McDonnell is still awaiting trial, according to Fox 16. Clark County District Judge Tierra Jones slapped Christopher McDonnell with a sentence that means he wouldn’t be eligible for parole until the next century, 2120, KLAS-TV reported. |
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