Woman gets life sentence in Missouri shooting death

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(AP) – The last of three people accused in the 2014 southwestern
Missouri shooting death of a man they suspected of being a drug informant has
been sentenced to prison.Online court records show that 30-year-old Gabriella Shields of Republic was
sentenced Monday in Christian County to a life term for second-degree murder and
an additional 40 years for armed criminal action, with the terms to be served
one after the other. She pleaded guilty in April.

Another defendant has been sentence to life in prison, while the third person
accused got 18 years in prison.

The three were accused in the death of 35-year-old Christopher Younes, whose
body was found in the Mark Twain National Forest near Chadwick. His death came
during an investigation of a Springfield-area drug distribution ring.

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