Her jaw was missing: After fooling her into walking down train lines, the man shot her in the mouth and buried her body “underneath a dirty overpass.”

Jason Lee Horner, a 41-year-old from Minnesota, received an 18-year prison sentence for second-degree murder and unlawful firearm possession in the 2023 killing of his 25-year-old ex-girlfriend, Sabrina Lee Schnoor.[query] Prosecutors detailed how Horner shot her through the mouth with a shotgun under an Interstate 35 overpass in Owatonna, leaving her body amid train tracks with her jaw shattered and bone fragments scattered nearby.[query]

Incident Details

Police responded around 10 p.m. on May 30, 2023, finding Schnoor’s body with severe facial trauma and blood spatter; surveillance captured the couple at a convenience store near 9:30 p.m. the prior evening, walking tracks together before Horner returned alone.[query] Friends located her using Life360 data she shared beforehand, after she went silent post-meetup despite their prior breakup over his alleged abuse.[query]

Legal Proceedings

Horner evaded capture for five days before arrest; a jury convicted him last month following prosecution by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.[query] During sentencing, family members like great-uncle Robert Wood and grandmother Marni Schnoor expressed raw grief, cursing Horner and remembering Sabrina’s joyful spirit.

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