Life sentence for man, 21, in neighborhood mom killing case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 21-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole Thursday after pleading guilty to the death of a Las Vegas mother of four who was targeted in a neighborhood cul-de-sac last year.

Erich Milton Nowsch Jr. left the courtroom sobbing after he was sentenced for second-degree murder for the death of Tammy Meyers, 44, in February 2015. The case was initially cast as road rage while Myers taught her 15-year-old daughter to drive in a school parking lot, but authorities later attributed it to a series of misunderstandings and parties mistakenly identifying each other.

"My intentions were to take someone bad out, not a loving, caring mom," Nowsch said in a nearly three-hour taped interview last year obtained by The Associated Press. "My intention was to take someone who was going to hurt my family out, not someone's mom, not Tammy."

Nowsch will be eligible for parole after 10 years, but also must serve at least four more years for a weapons enhancement.

"Am I going to forgive you? Never. Ever," Meyers' widower, Robert Meyers, told the defendant at the hearing. "I hope for me and mine that you burn in hell and you get what you have coming to you today, because you, mister, are an animal."