LAS VEGAS — A 21-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole on Thursday after pleading guilty to the death of a Las Vegas mother of four who was targeted in a neighborhood cul-de-sac last year.

Erich Milton Nowsch Jr. left the courtroom sobbing after he was sentenced for second-degree murder for the death of Tammy Meyers, 44, in February 2015. The case was initially cast as road rage while Myers taught her 15-year-old daughter to drive in a school parking lot, but authorities later attributed it to a series of misunderstandings and parties mistakenly identifying each other.

“My intentions were to take someone bad out, not a loving, caring mom,” Nowsch said in a nearly three-hour taped interview last year. “My intention was to take someone who was going to hurt my family out, not someone’s mom, not Tammy.”

Nowsch will be eligible for parole after 10 years, but also must serve at least four more years for a weapons enhancement.

“Am I going to forgive you? Never. Ever,” Meyers’ widower, Robert Meyers, told the defendant at the hearing. “I hope for me and mine that you burn in hell and you get what you have coming to you today, because you, mister, are an animal.”

Nowsch tried earlier this month to withdraw his guilty plea, but was denied. He requested Thursday that his sentencing be delayed because he didn’t have enough time to prepare, but District Judge Michael Villani denied that too, saying the killing stemmed from “one of the worst chain of events this community has seen.”

Getaway driver Derrick Andrews, 28, was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and accessory to murder.

The Feb. 12 shooting appears to have resulted from a series of tragic coincidences.