A man in Wisconsin has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison for fatally shooting his 8-year-old stepson in the arm and neck while showing off guns to him — telling cops afterward that he was attempting to "look cool" and be "exciting," according to prosecutors.

"How is it cool and exciting to point a gun at an 8-year-old boy?" said Walworth County Circuit Court Judge Kristine E. Drettwan during Steven Merkel's sentencing on Thursday .

"A 52-year-old, at 2:00 in the morning roughly, pulling out firearms to look cool to an 8-year-old?" Drettwan blasted. "How is that fun? How does that make you look cool?"

Merkel, now 53, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision after entering a guilty plea in August for first-degree reckless homicide . His step

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