RENO, Nev. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman who was convicted of fatally shooting the father of her young child while the boy stood nearby at a popular Reno park has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Katherine Fletcher was found guilty in February of first-degree murder in the killing of Robert Trask at Oxbow Nature Park along the Truckee River on July 28, 2016.
Washoe County District Attorney Chris Hicks announced Monday that Judge Egan Walker sentenced Fletcher on Oct. 29.
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Trask was found unresponsive on the park's wildlife observation deck with a single gunshot wound to his upper back and later died at a local hospital.