A 25-year-old Tucson man was sentenced to 25 years to life Tuesday, in connection with a 2015 Marana shooting death, officials said.
Cody Clark was arrested in March 2015, after police found 22-year-old Austin Gann dead inside of his car near I-10 and West Cortaro Road, according to Arizona Daily Star archives.
The pair were drinking together in a parking lot the night before the shooting, according to a post on the Pima County Attorney's Office Facebook page.
Clark was dry firing his gun in the parking lot, when he pulled out a magazine and loaded the gun with bullets before firing a shot into the desert, the post said.
Gann, who was startled, ran to his car and Clark followed him, getting into the backseat, according to the post.
Clark held Gann at gunpoint, forcing him to drive into the desert before shooting him in the back of his neck, the post said.
Shortly after Gann's body was discovered, Marana police arrested Clark for criminal damage in an unrelated incident. He was in custody when authorities linked him to Gann's murder.
Deputy Pima County Attorneys Julie Sottosanti and Jeff Wadman prosecuted the case, and Pima County Superior Court JudgeΒ Howard FellΒ issued Clark's sentence.
