A Black Forest man was sentenced Monday to two life terms without parole plus 144 years in prison in an ambush shooting that killed his estranged wife’s boyfriend and left a bullet lodged in her neck.
Maxwell Mayo Garihan, 60, displayed no visible reaction as 4th Judicial District Judge Scott Sells imposed the maximum sentence in the October 2015 attack.
“I cannot emphasize enough how senseless and brutal these crimes were,” Sells said. Garihan’s sentencing came within minutes of an El Paso County jury’s sweeping guilty verdicts on the heels of a weeklong trial.
Prosecutors say Garihan lay in wait for his targets to go to bed before he stormed into the darkened bedroom of a Black Forest trailer home and opened fire with a .357 revolver, twice wounding Margaret Temple in the head and killing Alan Havens, 57, where he lay. The assailant has six prior felonies, including for burglary and assault.
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