The gun-obsessed Vegas woman who expressed a desire to “shoot people with real guns and get away with it” has been sentenced to five years to life for killing her friend during an impromptu photo shoot.
Allysandra Blea, 21, was seen with her head stooped during Tuesday’s sentencing after she pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping and involuntary manslaughter for the death of 23-year-old Mark Gaughan, Court TV reported.
Gaughan was killed after he was shot once in the neck by Blea near his home roughly four miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip just before 5 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2025.
The pair had been drinking vodka and smoking marijuana for hours at the home of a mutual friend, Gavin Fitzpatrick, and his girlfriend, Maverick Crafts, the evening leading up to the killing, the outlet reported.
Prior to sentencing, Clark testified that Gaughan was in “love” with Blea — but Blea had confessed she didn’t actually consider him her boyfriend and didn’t even like him, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
“She was disgusted to hear that he would call her his girlfriend,” Clark said.
Blea posed for photos with Gaughan’s gun on the hood of a truck in the driveway when the gun went off and fatally struck him, police said. Blea was arrested three days later on charges of “Open Murder with a Deadly Weapon.”
Police found two Polaroid photos at the scene — one apparently showing Blea holding a firearm, another showing a girl holding a knife.
Blea, who was 20 at the time, told investigators the shooting was accidental and that she believed the gun wasn’t loaded during the early morning photo shoot.
However, a search of Blea’s phone revealed what investigators described as a “fascination with firearms,” including numerous messages referencing her enthusiasm for building an arsenal and images of her posing with various weapons.
Police also found one message in which Blea allegedly said, “I wish I could shoot people with real guns and get away with it,” and spoke about gunning down prostitutes and the homeless, according to Court TV.
Another message Blea sent to someone on social media said, “I would kill prostitutes and bury them in the New Mexico desert.”
After making the disturbing discovery, detectives decided to bring Blea in for questioning, homicide detective Kasey Kirkegard told a grand jury during her trial, the outlet reported.
“In the middle of the interview, when we confronted her about all these statements that were made through social media, she stated they were a joke and that she has a somewhat intimate knowledge to prostitutes being buried in the New Mexico desert,” Kirkegard said.
“And she stated that her grandfather was actually a serial killer that was previously convicted in New Mexico.”
Blea’s grandfather, Joseph Blea, is a person of interest in the disappearance of 10 to 12 prostitutes in New Mexico and has a prior conviction for sexual assault against several of the women.
He is currently serving a 36-year prison sentence, imposed in 2015, for the 1988 rape of a 13-year-old girl, KOAT reported.
Following her sentencing on Tuesday, Blea will serve a minimum of five years and a maximum of life in the Nevada Department of Corrections.
She was also ordered to pay restitution for Gaughan’s funeral expenses totaling $16,085.81 and to his mother, Caroline Gaughan.
Caroline Gaughan, who delivered an impact statement during the sentencing, expressed fury at the light sentence handed down to her son’s killer.
“She is a danger to society,” she said following the verdict, according to the outlet.
“She will continue to live her life after sentencing, but me, I will live with a life sentence of grief, of trauma, of depression, stress, anxiety, brokenness, a nightmare I can’t escape until the day I die.”
Judge Jacqueline Bluth acknowledged the victim’s mother’s disappointment but said she would endorse the plea agreement since there was “too much to risk on both sides.”
“This was a case that should not have gone to trial,” Bluth said.
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