A Lyman man who shot a local tattoo artist about 10 times during a Fort Bridger summer festival last August was sentenced Monday to between 50 and 75 years in prison.

Skyler Gray, 37, was also ordered to pay $8,440 in restitution to cover the funeral costs for his victim, 48-year-old Jeremy Jaques.

The evening of Aug. 31, 2024, Gray arrived at a home near the Fort Bridger Rendezvous with his children and wife.

Jaques was visiting the home, doing tattoos for people that day, according to statements the homeowner gave Monday during Gray’s sentencing hearing.

While the two men talked inside the home in front of people Jaques was tattooing, their discussion moved outside, and Gray shouted that Jaques “owed” him, according to court documents and testimony.

They had a dispute over money and

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