John Dabritz, 67, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for the ambush shooting last year of Jenkins near Ely.
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In exchange for John Dabritz’s plea of “guilty but mentally ill,” White Pine County prosecutors have pulled capital punishment off the table.
Authorities said the armed man had been chasing two strangers around Jean in his pickup truck. The chase ended outside a Nevada Highway Patrol station, where he was shot and killed by troopers.
John Dabritz is charged with open murder, third-degree arson, grand larceny of a motor vehicle and grand larceny of a firearm in connection with the March shooting.
Shawn McDonnell and Kayleigh Lewis will join McDonnell’s brother, Christopher, in Clark County after the suspects were separated following their capture in rural Arizona.
An Ely judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for John Dabritz to stand trial in the March shooting death of Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Ben Jenkins.
Authorities suspect that John Dabritz committed crimes involving an explosive device in Nye County just prior to the fatal shooting of a Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant.
Previously released court documents related to the killing say that the sergeant was shot in his “shoulder and/or head.”
A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper who was shot and killed during a traffic stop Friday morning was identified by authorities as a grandfather from White Pine County.
All six shots fired by SWAT officers at an attempted robbery suspect who pointed a weapon at police following an hourslong standoff struck the suspect, police said Thursday.