A Tucson teenager who crashed a party last August and ended up shooting another man to death was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday.
Shane Dawson Stewart, 19, received nine years in prison for shooting Shawn C. Schwartz to death, plus an additional year for violating his probation, said Deputy Pima County Attorney Michael Kelly.
Nine years was the maximum sentence Judge Hector Campoy could have given Stewart for the shooting under the terms of a plea agreement he signed, Kelly said.
Stewart and Sean Michael Yacks were uninvited guests at a party near East Wetmore Road and North First Avenue when they began drinking beer from a refrigerator instead of a keg, Kelly said.
When two other partygoers asked Stewart and Yacks to stop drinking the off-limits beer and to stop smoking inside the residence, a fight broke out, Kelly said.
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Within minutes, two separate shootings occurred.
Kyle Rhein, 20, was shot in the spleen by Yacks, 18, and Schwartz was shot by Stewart.
Yacks received five years in prison Jan. 25 after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
No one saw the incident involving Stewart and Schwartz, Kelly said.
Stewart, however, told detectives he was being chased by partygoers and fired his weapon in self-defense, Kelly said.
At the time of the shooting, Stewart was on probation for disorderly conduct with a weapon and not allowed to possess a weapon.
Stewart pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a weapon by a prohibited possessor in exchange for a manslaughter charge being dismissed.
Kelly said Campoy gave Stewart 2.5 years for the weapons charge, but ran it concurrent to the aggravated assault sentence.
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