Texas Man with Whole-Face Skull Tattoo Sentenced to Century in Prison for Deadly Thanksgiving Shooting Rampage

Christopher McDonnell went on a shooting rampage across two states with his brother and sister-in-law

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Many victims who survived the rampage described McDonnell's face tattoos, which look like a skull, while recounting their encounters with him. Henderson Police Department

A Texas man referred to as the "Skeletor" due to his unique face tattoos has been sentenced to a century in prison after allegedly going on an armed rampage across Nevada and Arizona, which ended up with one person killed and several injured, according to authorities.

32-year-old Christopher McDonnell pleaded guilty to over 20 felonies in October, including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm, reported KLAS-TV.

Alongside his brother Shawn and his then-wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, McDonnell drove around Henderson, Texas randomly shooting at people on a rampage that lasted 11 hours in November of 2020. 22-year-old Kevin Mendiola Jr. was killed while shielding his girlfriend from the bullets.

"The hurt, the pain, the guilt, and the stress that these three individuals put on my family ... our lives will never be the same," Mendiola's brother Christevin Mendiola told the court.

"He saved me, and I'll never know why," Mendiola's girlfriend, Jayde Libby, said.

The trio was arrested after their car rolled over following a high-speech chase with Arizona state troopers during which one officer was hit and injured.

Many victims who survived the rampage described McDonnell's face tattoos, which look like a skull, while recounting their encounters with him.

"I call him 'Skeletor,' " said a man who McDonnell shot at outside of a 7-Eleven, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"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 man's daughter, who McDonnell aimed his gun at, told the court.

"I heard him say he was God and that there is an upcoming war coming," the daughter continued.

"I take full responsibility for my own wrongdoings, and I appreciate the courts for administering justice," McDonnell said on his end in a written statement.

Originally published by Latin Times.

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