Woman shot, left to die on roadside

ALFRED, Maine (AP) -  A 27-year-old Texas man who shot his girlfriend and left her on the side of a southern Maine road has been sentenced to 29 years in prison.

Geoffrey Reese was sentenced Tuesday in York County Superior Court

A jury last month found him guilty of elevated aggravated assault and other charges for shooting Tanya Garza, 33, several times in their car in May 2008 and then leaving her beside a road in Saco, Maine .

The two had recently moved to Maine from Texas and had been staying at a motel in Old Orchard Beach .

Garza said in a statement last month that she forgave Reese but thought he should have the maximum sentence after leaving her on the side of the road to "die like a dog."