Snapchat Shooter Gets 5 Years For Deadly Conduct

HOUSTON, TX — A woman who was recorded in a Snapchat video firing a gun from the passenger window of a moving car earlier this year will spend the next five years in prison.

Sierra Tarbutton, 27, who was facing felony charges for deadly conduct, plead guilty Tuesday morning and was sentenced to five years in prison.

Tarbutton and Michael “Money Mike” Cuellar, 29, recorded one another firing semi-automatic weapons while driving along a west Houston street area in September.

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Police initially didn’t investigate the incident, which was recorded in late September, because there were no official reports filed.

However, after the video surfaced, Houston Police launched an investigation and quickly identified the shooters in the video as Tarbutton and Cuellar.

Harris County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Tarbutton on Oct. 2, and Cuellar turned himself into police the next day.

Both were charged with deadly conducted and held in the Harris County Jail.

Cuellar faces a similar sentence if he is convicted.

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