INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A 41-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced Friday to 82 years in prison for the 2021 murder of a man at the Carriage House East apartments.

Indianapolis police found Michael McDowell, 65, dead with a single gunshot wound to the head while responding to a report of a person shot about 4:50 p.m. July 3, 2021, in the 10100 block of Pineneedle Court. The apartment complex is near the intersection of East 42nd Street and North Mitthoeffer Road.

A jury in March found Daniel Cortez “Cory” Rhodes guilty of murder. A count of unlawful possession of a firearm was dismissed, online court records show. However, the jury found Rhodes to be a habitual offender, which added 20 years to 82-year sentence.

Witnesses told investigators that Rhodes and McDowell were visiting an apartment, and Rhodes was acting paranoid and was under the influence. Investigators obtained and executed a search warrant for Rhodes’s residence and recovered the rifle used in the shooting with Rhodes’s DNA on the weapon. The special weapons and tactics team of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department apprehended Rhodes and he was taken to the homicide office, the prosecutor’s office said in a news release.

Rhodes admitted to detective that he’d approach McDowell as he sat on the couch inside the apartment and shot him in the head, the release says. Rhodes also told detectives that he believed he was being set up for a robbery and thought McDowell had a gun.

There were no firearms recovered from McDowell or the apartment, the release says.

Rhodes remained in the Marion County jail on Friday afternoon, online records showed.