The gun-obsessed Vegas lady who expressed a need to “shoot folks with actual weapons and get away with it” has been sentenced to 5 years to life for killing her buddy throughout an impromptu photograph shoot.
Allysandra Blea, 21, sobbed as she was sentenced Tuesday after she pleaded responsible to first-degree kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter for the dying of 23-year-old Mark Gaughan, Court docket TV reported.
Gaughan was killed after he was shot as soon as within the neck by Blea close to his residence roughly 4 miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip simply earlier than 5 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2025.
The pair had been ingesting vodka and smoking marijuana for hours on the residence of a mutual buddy, Gavin Fitzpatrick, and his girlfriend, Maverick Crafts, the night main as much as the killing, the outlet reported.
Previous to sentencing, Clark testified that Gaughan was in “love” with Blea — however Blea had confessed she didn’t really contemplate him her boyfriend and didn’t even like him, in accordance with the Las Vegas Assessment Journal.
“She was disgusted to listen to that he would name her his girlfriend,” Clark stated.
Blea posed for photographs with Gaughan’s gun on the hood of a truck within the driveway when the gun went off and fatally struck him, police stated. Blea was arrested three days afterward expenses of “Open Homicide with a Lethal Weapon.”
Police discovered two Polaroid photographs on the scene — one apparently exhibiting Blea holding a firearm, one other exhibiting a woman holding a knife.
Blea, who was 20 on the time, advised investigators the capturing was unintended and that she believed the gun wasn’t loaded throughout the early morning photograph shoot.
Nevertheless, a search of Blea’s telephone revealed what investigators described as a “fascination with firearms,” together with quite a few messages referencing her enthusiasm for constructing an arsenal and pictures of her posing with varied weapons.
Police additionally discovered one message by which Blea allegedly stated, “I want I might shoot folks with actual weapons and get away with it,” and spoke about gunning down prostitutes and the homeless, in accordance with Court docket TV.
One other message Blea despatched to somebody on social media stated, “I’d kill prostitutes and bury them within the New Mexico desert.”
After making the disturbing discovery, detectives determined to deliver Blea in for questioning, murder detective Kasey Kirkegard advised a grand jury throughout her trial, the outlet reported.
“In the course of the interview, after we confronted her about all these statements that have been made by social media, she said they have been a joke and that she has a considerably intimate information to prostitutes being buried within the New Mexico desert,” Kirkegard stated.
“And he or she said that her grandfather was really a serial killer that was beforehand convicted in New Mexico.”
Blea’s grandfather, Joseph Blea, is an individual of curiosity within the disappearance of 10 to 12 prostitutes in New Mexico and has a previous conviction for sexual assault in opposition to a number of of the ladies.
He’s at present serving a 36-year jail sentence, imposed in 2015, for the 1988 rape of a 13-year-old woman, KOAT reported.
Following her sentencing on Tuesday, Blea will serve a minimal of 5 years and a most of life within the Nevada Division of Corrections.
She was additionally ordered to pay restitution for Gaughan’s funeral bills totaling $16,085.81 and to his mom, Caroline Gaughan.
Caroline Gaughan, who delivered an affect assertion throughout the sentencing, expressed fury on the gentle sentence handed right down to her son’s killer.
“She is a hazard to society,” she stated following the decision, in accordance with the outlet.
“She’s going to proceed to stay her life after sentencing, however me, I’ll stay with a life sentence of grief, of trauma, of melancholy, stress, anxiousness, brokenness, a nightmare I can’t escape till the day I die.”
Choose Jacqueline Bluth acknowledged the sufferer’s mom’s disappointment however stated she would endorse the plea settlement since there was “an excessive amount of to danger on each side.”
“This was a case that ought to not have gone to trial,” Bluth stated.
