A 31-year-old man in Texas will spend the remainder of his days behind bars for shooting multiple people, killing one, blinding another, and hospitalizing several victims.

A Brazos County jury on Monday ordered Larry Bollin to serve a sentence of life in a state correctional facility for the 2021 slaying of Timothy Smith, authorities announced. The same group of jurors on Friday found Bollin guilty on one count of first-degree murder in connection to the fatal shooting. In addition to his incarceration, jurors also levied a $10,000 fine against Bollin.

According to a news release from the Brazos County Sheriff’s Office, Bollin was an employee at Kent Moore Cabinets in the 300 block of Stone City Drive in Bryan, Texas, on April 8, 2021, when he went to work with a handgun concealed in his lunch cooler. Authorities said that following his afternoon break, Bollin was in a warehouse in the building in Bryan, some 100 miles northeast of Houston, when he “pulled the handgun from his cooler and fired multiple shots directly at Smith without provocation or warning.”

After fatally wounding Smith, Bollin fired “at least” 20 additional shots in various directions, hitting numerous other victims, including Walter Vega, Juan Ordonez, Isidoro Leal, and Juan Uribe. At some point during the continued violence, a man named Nathan Whited “attempted to bravely intervene” and end the shooting, even asking Bollin “why he shot the individuals in the warehouse.”

Bollin answered with increasingly cold-blooded violence.

“The defendant responded to Whited ‘I’ll show you why.’ Bollin then reloaded his firearm and shot Whited multiple times, sending Whited to the hospital. Bollin then fled the scene and shot Whited in the back as he lay on the floor defenseless,” the release states.

Bollin then fled from the Kent Moore Cabinets warehouse and returned to his home in Iola, Texas, which is around 30 miles northeast of Bryan. While Bollin was at his home, a Department of Public Safety trooper named Juan Tovar approached the home in an effort to apprehend Bollin, the sheriff’s office said.

“Bollin then took aim and shot Trooper Tovar with a rifle as Trooper Tovar retreated in his patrol vehicle,” prosecutors said. “Tovar was shot in the left eye and lost his eye as a result.”

During the sentencing hearing, the mothers of injured victims Nathan Whited and Juan Ordonez as well as the wife of Juan Uribe read victim impact statements detailing how their relatives have suffered physically and emotionally as a result of the shooting.

“Brazos County was changed forever by this Defendant’s actions. The jury protected us all today, when they sentenced Larry Bollin to life.” District Attorney Jarvis Parsons and Assistant District Attorney and Jennifer Hebert, who led the trial team, said in a joint statement.

Proceedings in Bollins’ case were stagnant for several years after health officials in 2023 deemed him incompetent to stand trial. However, after Bollins received more than a year of treatment from a state hospital, officials changed their assessment and his prosecution went forward, local CBS and CW affiliate KBTX reported.