ALFRED (AP) – A South Portland man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for the killing of a Massachusetts man whose body was found off the Maine Turnpike two years ago.

Huy “Tony” Van Nguyen was convicted last June in the fatal shooting of Dung Quoc Ngo, whose body was found in York in October 2005 with a bullet in the head.

On Friday, Assistant Attorney General Lisa Marchese called Ngo’s death a “premeditated execution in retribution for a drug rip-off.”