A Virginia man who shot his girlfriend and then lied numerous times about what happened to her once he brought her to a hospital will remain behind bars for the foreseeable future.

Huy “Max” Nguyen, 47, has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of 38-year-old Alison “Kate” Laporta, as well as the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, local outlets reported outside a Fairfax County courthouse, including CBS affiliate WUSA.

Nguyen and Laporta had been dating for about a year when, on the night of April 17, 2024, Laporta was shot in her upper body. Nguyen took the mother of two to Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, where Fairfax County Police Department officers made contact with him.

Laporta was subsequently transferred to another hospital, the police department announced, where she was pronounced dead.

Police body camera footage obtained by Washington, D.C., NBC affiliate WRC shows Nguyen raising his hands in the air and being checked for weapons as officers made contact with him at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Nguyen said he and Laporta were in a parking lot in nearby Annandale when a stray bullet hit her. However, “detectives disproved that allegation.”

The investigation continued, and detectives “determined Nguyen shot LaPorta” inside the vehicle he used to bring her to the hospital. The gun used to shoot and kill her was found near Nguyen”s home, the police department added.

But this was last spring. As the months went on — and his jury trial got underway this year — the since-convicted man’s story changed. He reportedly claimed Laporta tried to shoot at him and then died because she shot herself. His defense team even introduced hundreds of pages of medical records from 2022 when Laporta allegedly had a mental health crisis and was admitted to a hospital.

Prosecutors worked to dispute this telling of events. They called men to the witness stand who were reportedly with the couple at a pool hall on the day of her death.

“The only way this argument ends is with a bullet,” one witness allegedly recalled Nguyen as saying that day.

“I’m going to shoot this girl,” the condemned man reportedly added.

Left: Huy Nguyen (Fairfax County Police Department). Right: Alison “Kate” Laporta (Brinsfield Funeral Home & Crematory).

Four bullet casings are said to have been recovered from the driver’s side of the SUV in which Laporta was shot. One casing was also found in her purse, as well as one in the SUV’s back seat.

Authorities were pleased with the conviction but upset that such a case even had to be heard.

“Evidence presented at trial, including the trajectory of the bullet and a photo of the firearm’s imprint on Kate’s seatbelt, showed that Mr. Nguyen was the one who pulled the trigger while they were both seated in Kate’s car,” the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

“Kate should still be with us today,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said in the statement, per WRC. “Max Nguyen’s needless actions stole a daughter from her parents and a mother from her children. I’m relieved that his attempts to lie about what happened to Kate did not allow him to escape accountability. I hope that this conviction can bring some measure of closure to Kate’s family.”

The victim’s father reportedly took a somber tone after the verdict was read.

“That didn’t heal anything, you know. He’s going to jail, but I still don’t have my daughter,” he told WRC. “She was a mom of two … she was close to her grandmother, she loved her kids, she loved her friends, she loved herself. She wanted to be here on earth.”

Prosecutors are said to have counted more than 400 lies that Nguyen told during the investigation into his girlfriend’s death.

Nguyen is scheduled to be sentenced in February. He faces up to 40 years for the second-degree murder charge, according to Virginia law.