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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 23-year-old former U.S. Army reservist has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison for shooting and killing a Henderson woman while they chatted with someone online a year ago.
Colin Michael Lowrey's defense attorney, Stephen Stein, says Lowrey apologized at sentencing Friday and said he never meant to hurt anyone.
Stein says members of 23-year-old slaying victim Cherish Noelle Pincombe's family called Lowrey a cold-blooded killer.
Lowrey pleaded guilty in August to voluntary manslaughter with a weapon in a plea deal that avoided trial in the October 2013 slaying.
Lowrey told police he'd been drinking alcohol, and he thought the gun was unloaded when he put it to Pincombe's head and pulled the trigger.
Police say they think someone on an anonymous Internet chat witnessed the shooting.
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