A 22-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for a fatal shooting outside an Aurora bar in 2013.
Daeshaun Howard was sentenced in Arapahoe County District Court for the death of 22-year-old Christopher Bryant, according to a district attorney’s office news release.
Bryant was , outside Primo’s Bar. Bryant’s friend Demetrey Adams was shot four times. He survived.
The jury deliberated less than three hours Monday, finding Howard guilty of all six criminal counts, including first-degree murder. The murder conviction carries a mandatory penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Co-defendant Christopher Williams, 25, was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced in December to life in prison without parole. Jovonte Jiles, 21, was sentenced in September 2014 to seven years in the Department of Youth Corrections after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
These “acts were a cold-blooded ambush of innocent people,” Senior Judge Donald W. Marshall said imposing the sentence, according to the release. Howard showed a “total indifference to humanity at large.”
