(KRON) -- On Friday, a Contra Costa County judge sentenced a man to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend in front of her two children.

The victim, 30-year-old Rashanda Franklin, was attempting to drop off her young sons at school in a church parking lot on the morning of April 4, 2017. Her ex-boyfriend, Lawyer Dushan McBride, was waiting for her in the parking lot.

He fatally shot Franklin while she was on the phone with 911 dispatchers and her children were still in the car, prosecutors said.

Judge Mary Ann O'Malley sentenced 51-year-old McBride to serve 95 years to life in state prison.

Leading up to the killing, Franklin ended a two-year-long relationship. Following the breakup, the jilted ex-boyfriend stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend for weeks,

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