A Colorado man who shot his estranged wife and her cousin hours after being informed he was not the biological father of one of their children was ordered last week to serve almost six decades in prison.
Kelynn Lewis, 34, received a 42-year sentence in Adams County Court on Friday for second-degree murder, a 10-year sentence for second-degree attempted murder, and an additional five years for tampering with evidence — 57 years collectively. A jury found him guilty of those counts, and others, in February.
Lewis was arrested by police 36 hours after he broke into his estranged wife’s Aurora apartment on Feb. 9, 2024 and shot both women, according to details in his arrest affidavit. Deondranay McCain, his estranged wife, and her cousin, Vatrice Little, were braiding one another’s hair at the time.
Lewis had moved out of the apartment three months earlier, according to the report. He and McCain were the parents of a young child and had recently divorced (although the marriage was determined to not be legally binding during those divorce proceedings)…