A Denton County jury on Friday sentenced Siang Leng Thang, 19, of Flower Mound, to life in prison for the 2023 shooting death of Lewisville High School student Skylar Ashton Marquel Linson.
The deadly shooting took place on September 20, 2023, just after 4 p.m. in the parking lot of Raising Cane’s, located in the 1000 block of West Main Street near Lewisville High School. Police said Linson, 17 at the time and a high school senior, was shot multiple times while walking towards the restaurant. He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
After the shooting, Thang fled the scene but was followed by a Good Samaritan who alerted police to his location. Officers from the Lewisville Police Department apprehended Thang a short time later in the 1800 block of Trinity Mills Road near the President George Bush Turnpike in Carrollton…