A northeast Kansas man has been sentenced to life without parole for kidnapping his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter and shooting the child to death during a police chase.

Thirty-two-year-old Marcas McGowan of Atchison was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus a consecutive ten year term. McGowan pleaded guilty in May to kidnapping resulting in death, and to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

He declined to address the judge during his sentencing hearing Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas.

Authorities say McGowan abducted Cadence Harris on July 18, 2014, after arguing with her mother at their home.

During a chase that followed the argument, McGowan fired at police and fatally shot the girl. Authorities pursued him into neighboring Missouri before he crashed through a barricade near Leavenworth, Kansas.

McGowan was injured by gunfire in a gunfight with police. Afterward they discovered the body of the dead five-year-old, who had been fatally shot at close range.

Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson was appointed as a special assistant U.S. attorney to help with the federal case.  Thompson said McGowan was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping charge, and an additional 10-year sentence for the firearms charge.