A man who shot his ex-wife and killed the man she was with after a Mobile Mardi Gras parade in 2020 will spend the rest of his life in prison, the Mobile District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

Saying the crime he committed was one of the most senseless acts she had encountered in her 35 years of law, Circuit Court Judge Vicki Davis sentenced 52-year-old Anthony Orr of Mobile to life in state prison for the murder of 51-year-old Eldred Hall and the shooting of Orr’s ex-wife, Valerie Reed, the injuries from which left her paralyzed.

In August, a Mobile County jury found Orr guilty of murder, attempted murder, first-degree attempted assault and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

In addition to the life sentence for murder, Davis sentenced Orr to life for the attempted murder conviction, 15 years for attempted assault and 10 years for shooting into an occupied vehicle. Those sentences will run concurrent.

“All loss of life is tragic, and dozens or even hundreds of innocent people could have been injured due to Anthony Orr’s actions that evening,” said Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood.

The shooting occurred just before the Infant Mystics parade on Feb. 24, 2020, near the intersection of Warren and St. Anthony streets.

Mobile police said at the time Orr made public threats against the two victims and obtained a gun the day prior to the shooting.

According to investigators, an altercation ensued at the beginning of the parade route where Orr fatally shot Hall, and also shot Reed, who was 54 at the time.

Orr’s divorce from the former Valerie Reed was finalized in September 2019, according to court records.

In the divorce complaint, Orr’s ex-wife said Orr had been “verbally, emotionally and physically abusive” toward her and made several threats to kill her, a March 2019 court filing states. She had obtained a protection from abuse order against Orr a year before that filing, records show.

Orr was arrested on a domestic violence/harassment charge on Feb. 18, 2020, according to court records, and was released on bond Feb. 21 — three days before the shooting.

That arrest stemmed from a complaint Reed filed in March 2019 stating that in October 2018 Orr punched and kicked her in the face, according to court records.

In August 2019, Orr pleaded guilty to resisting arrest after his ex-wife called Mobile County deputies in March of that year saying Orr was trying to break into her house. Deputies found Orr near her house and repeatedly used a taser on him when he refused to comply with their commands, records indicate.

Orr was due in court to answer those charges on March 3, 2020 — one week after the shooting.