BOZEMAN - A 39-year-old Three Forks man prisoner of shooting his former girlfriend to death and burning her body in a barrel was sentenced Tuesday to 120 years in prison with no chance of parole.
District Judge Holly Brown sentenced Jay Myran for the May 12, 2009, passing away of 53-year-old Gayle Brewster at her Three Forks home. Myran was given 100 years in prison for deliberate homicide, 10 years for tampering with evidence and another 10 years for using a weapon.
He was prisoner in May of killing Brewster and was accused of recruiting his then 13-year-old son to help burn the body. Criminal defense attorney Peter Ohman argued that Brewster played a role in her own death because she shoved the barrel of Myran's gun into her mouth during an argument before it by accident discharged.
"This was a terrible set of situation that resulted in (Brewster's) death," Ohman said in court. "The defendant was in a condition that got out of hand."
But Brown did not agree his argument.
"This was not a crime of fervor or self-defense," she said. "This did not an accident. This was a preplanned criminal act."
Brown also ordered Myran to pay $7,998.75 in compensation and to register as a violent offender.
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