A man who pleaded guilty in the death of a Colorado Springs woman who was shot at point-blank range in front of her 5-year-old son was sentenced Monday to 60 years in prison.
Matthew Robert Moore, 20, apologized to the family of Courtney Lynn Beaudette even as he tiptoed around the role he played.
“I’m sorry for the choices that were made that day,” he said during a soft-spoken address, without specifying which choice he regretted.
Moore, who pleaded guilty in June to second-degree murder and second-degree burglary, previously denied claims by two co-defendants that he was the one who pulled the trigger – part of a feud that one participant said was over a stolen pair of jeans.
Beaudette, 28, was shot June 1, 2016, after three masked men barged into her apartment at the Shannon Glen Apartments, 230 N. Murray Blvd., demanding money. Authorities say her son dashed into his bedroom and came back with a dollar bill, offering it to the men if they would leave.
When the gun went off, the boy was “splashed” with his mother’s blood, a police detective previously testified.
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