(Vancouver, WA) -- A sentence of life in prison has been handed down to 28-year-old Kirkland Warren in Vancouver for the murders of Meshay Melendez and her seven-year-old daughter Layla Stewart. They were both shot to death and their bodies were found off a rural road near Washougal last year days after they were reported missing. Warren's DNA tied him to the murders. He pleaded guilty to murder and child molestation.