(AP) – A northeast Kansas man has been sentenced to life in
prison for kidnapping his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter and shooting the
child to death during a 2014 police chase.
Thirty-two-year-old Marcas McGowan of Atchison declined to address the judge
during his sentencing hearing Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas.
McGowan already had pleaded guilty to kidnapping resulting in death, and to
discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
Authorities say McGowan abducted Cadence Harris on July 18, 2014, after
arguing with her mother at their home.
During a chase that followed the argument, McGowan fired at police and fatally
shot the girl. Authorities pursued him into neighboring Missouri before he
crashed through a barricade near Leavenworth, Kansas.
Officers shot him after he pointed a gun at them.
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