MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — A jail inmate convicted of killing a Maricopa County detention officer was sentenced to prison Friday.
Officials said Daniel Davitt was sentenced to 33 years after being convicted of manslaughter in May for the death of a detention officer in October 2019, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
Davitt was found guilty of being responsible for the death of Officer Gene Lee at the Lower Buckeye Jail.
At the time of the incident, MCSO said Lee was the victim of a targeted, violent attack.
Lee's death marked the first known instance where MCSO had lost a detention officer in the line of duty.
Davitt was found guilty last year of multiple sex crimes in an unrelated case, court records show.
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