The assailant in a deadly 2021 shooting of a gym employee outside of Fuel Fitness in Kalispell was sentenced Thursday to 170 years in state prison.

A jury in July found Douglas Shaw, 37, guilty of deliberate homicide and attempted deliberate homicide following a four-day trial in Flathead County District Court.

Judge Dan Wilson on Thursday handed down the 170-year term, with the possibility of parole set no sooner than 55 years.

Prosecutors alleged that Shaw shot Fuel Fitness manager Matthew Hurley dead after Hurley tried to refund his gym membership and dislodge him from the parking lot, where Shaw was living in a trailer. Matt Underhill, the gym’s assistant manager, had accompanied Hurley into the parking lot and testified during the jury trial that a menacing Shaw followed them back toward the gym before declaring his intent to kill and opening fire.

Another gym patron, William Keck, engaged Shaw in a gunfight shortly after Underhill fled. Both men were wounded in the exchange, which led to the attempted deliberate homicide charge.

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