James Coffman, 23, had admitted he shot Tiffany Johnson at a house in a Bossier Parish neighborhood two years ago.

Bossier prosecutors said that after killing Johnson, Coffman went to a neighborhood across the road, stole a truck, went to Texarkana and forced a girlfriend to go with him to Dallas.

In Dallas, he carjacked a woman for money and supplies to get to Kansas, where he was later arrested at a Wichita bus station, prosecutors said. Coffman had contacted a woman he knew in Wichita, prosecutors said.

Investigators said Coffman and Johnson met on a telephone chat-line. At the time of her murder, Johnson was living with a couple at their home south of Benton.

Johnson's father, Billy, came into town from California for the sentencing.

"You bring someone into the world You expect to raise them and keep raising them and see your grandchildren," Johnson said after the sentencing. "He's stolen all of that from me."