A convicted drug dealer who supplied a deadly dose of fentanyl to a 30-year-old Temecula man was sentenced on Friday, Dec. 5 to 15 years to life in state prison.

A Riverside jury in September convicted Quinn Aaron McKellips, 39, of Winchester of second-degree murder for the death of Calin Sender in 2020.

During a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Steven Counelis imposed the sentence required under state law on McKellips.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by sheriff’s Investigator Robert Cornett, Sender and McKellips were longtime acquaintances, and the latter sold different types of narcotics to the victim for months.

In the predawn hours of Jan. 17, 2020, deputies and paramedics were called to Sender’s residence in t

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